Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: link with -z norelro for LLD or aarch64-elf

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Jan 05 2021 - 07:27:34 EST


On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:24:32 -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> With GNU binutils 2.35+, linking with BFD produces warnings for vmlinux:
> aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: -z norelro ignored
>
> BFD can produce this warning when the target emulation mode does not
> support RELRO program headers, and -z relro or -z norelro is passed.
>
> Alan Modra clarifies:
> The default linker emulation for an aarch64-linux ld.bfd is
> -maarch64linux, the default for an aarch64-elf linker is
> -maarch64elf. They are not equivalent. If you choose -maarch64elf
> you get an emulation that doesn't support -z relro.
>
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/fixes), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: link with -z norelro for LLD or aarch64-elf
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/311bea3cb9ee

Also added the second Fixes tag with a cc stable.

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Catalin