[PATCH master] sandbox: lds: fix "ELF has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions" warning

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Sun Jul 14 23:04:37 PDT 2024


On 03.07.24 21:02, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> With binutils 2.39+, the barebox build started emitting this warning.
> On platforms other than sandbox, we disable this warning by passing --no-warn-rwx
> to ld as we don't care for ELF attributes as they aren't used anyway.
> 
> On sandbox, however, the ELF attributes matter, so disabling the warning
> completely felt wrong. Looking more into it now, we can mark the
> .barebox_rodata section in the linker file snippet we have in sandbox as
> READONLY and the warning disappears, so let's do that instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

Please dismiss this patch. The new BAREBOX_CLASSES addition to RO_DATA_SECTION
makes the section not const anymore, so this would crash on the first class
addition. I'll send a v2 later.

> ---
>  arch/sandbox/board/barebox.lds.S | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/sandbox/board/barebox.lds.S b/arch/sandbox/board/barebox.lds.S
> index ab2801f3d207..de8552dba0ac 100644
> --- a/arch/sandbox/board/barebox.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/sandbox/board/barebox.lds.S
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>  SECTIONS
>  {
>  	. = ALIGN(64);
> -	.barebox_rodata : {
> +	.barebox_rodata (READONLY) : {
>  		RO_DATA_SECTION
>  	}
>  }

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