ARM: zImage: make sure no GOTOFF relocs are used with .bss symbols
authorNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:54:39 +0000 (14:54 -0400)
committerNicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Sat, 7 May 2011 04:08:03 +0000 (00:08 -0400)
To be able to relocate the .bss section at run time independently from
the rest of the code, we must make sure that no GOTOFF relocations are
used with .bss symbols.  This usually means that no global variables can
be marked static unless they're also const.

To enforce this, suffice to fail the build whenever a private symbol
is allocated to .bss and list those symbols for convenience.

The user_stack and user_stack_end labels in head.S were converted into
non exported symbols to remove false positives.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S

index 79b5c62746df8ad38ef11393a39d90526d3d4054..23aad07223035a3fcfd9346158a808d2fe423b8e 100644 (file)
@@ -120,10 +120,23 @@ lib1funcs = $(obj)/lib1funcs.o
 $(obj)/lib1funcs.S: $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/lib/lib1funcs.S FORCE
        $(call cmd,shipped)
 
+# We need to prevent any GOTOFF relocs being used with references
+# to symbols in the .bss section since we cannot relocate them
+# independently from the rest at run time.  This can be achieved by
+# ensuring that no private .bss symbols exist, as global symbols
+# always have a GOT entry which is what we need.
+# The .data section is already discarded by the linker script so no need
+# to bother about it here.
+check_for_bad_syms = \
+bad_syms=$$($(CROSS_COMPILE)nm $@ | sed -n 's/^.\{8\} [bc] \(.*\)/\1/p') && \
+[ -z "$$bad_syms" ] || \
+  ( echo "following symbols must have non local/private scope:" >&2; \
+    echo "$$bad_syms" >&2; rm -f $@; false )
+
 $(obj)/vmlinux: $(obj)/vmlinux.lds $(obj)/$(HEAD) $(obj)/piggy.$(suffix_y).o \
                $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(OBJS)) $(lib1funcs) FORCE
        $(call if_changed,ld)
-       @:
+       @$(check_for_bad_syms)
 
 $(obj)/piggy.$(suffix_y): $(obj)/../Image FORCE
        $(call if_changed,$(suffix_y))
index b541217bd0400b6b3cae435f0bf74436db0fa1d8..8d5d91aefbb9dbe0fdae3d75bfcd6e3174cf3e9d 100644 (file)
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ LC0:                .word   LC0                     @ r1
                .word   input_data_end - 4      @ r10 (inflated size location)
                .word   _got_start              @ r11
                .word   _got_end                @ ip
-               .word   user_stack_end          @ sp
+               .word   .L_user_stack_end       @ sp
                .size   LC0, . - LC0
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_RPC
@@ -1100,5 +1100,5 @@ reloc_code_end:
 
                .align
                .section ".stack", "aw", %nobits
-user_stack:    .space  4096
-user_stack_end:
+.L_user_stack: .space  4096
+.L_user_stack_end: