Re: [PATCH] arm64 module: set plt* section addresses to 0x0

From: Shaoying Xu
Date: Tue Feb 16 2021 - 13:38:56 EST


So sorry about the double send because I forgot to cc the lists. Please just
ignore the first one. Thank you!

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:32:34PM +0000, Shaoying Xu wrote:
> These plt* and .text.ftrace_trampoline sections specified for arm64 have
> non-zero addressses. Non-zero section addresses in a relocatable ELF would
> confuse GDB when it tries to compute the section offsets and it ends up
> printing wrong symbol addresses. Therefore, set them to zero, which mirrors
> the change in commit 5d8591bc0fba ("module: set ksymtab/kcrctab* section
> addresses to 0x0").
>
> Reported-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shaoying Xu <shaoyi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h
> index 691f15af788e..810045628c66 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
> SECTIONS {
> - .plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> - .init.plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> - .text.ftrace_trampoline (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> + .plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> + .init.plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> + .text.ftrace_trampoline 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> }
> #endif
> --
> 2.16.6
>