[PATCH master] ARM64: lds: place relocation tables explicitly
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Mon Aug 31 03:03:32 PDT 2026
arch/arm/lib64/barebox.lds.S names PHDRS, but doesn't mention .rela.dyn,
.relr.dyn or .dynsym, so the linker places them as orphans.
With CONFIG_RELR disabled and a RELA table of several hundred KiB, GNU ld
squeezes it in-between .efi_runtime.text and .efi_runtime.data.
The latter, which starts its own PT_LOAD segment, ends then at an
unaligned address:
[15] .efi_runtime.text PROGBITS 00000000001e0000 001f0000
0000000000002000 0000000000000000 AX 0 0 64
[16] .rela.dyn RELA 00000000001e2000 001f2000
00000000000abf30 0000000000000018 A 3 0 8
[17] .efi_runtime.data PROGBITS 000000000028df30 0029df30 <---
0000000000000168 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 8
This will trigger a runtime panic when failing to apply the (page-wise)
memory protections.
A series for eliminating orphan sections completely is in the works.
For now, let's do the minimal fix of placing the tables via
BAREBOX_RELOCATION_TABLE like we already do for 32-bit ARM and
in the PBL linker script.
Fixes: 2aae71d068f6 ("ARM: lds: place EFI runtime code and data in separate PT_LOAD segments")
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
arch/arm/lib64/barebox.lds.S | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib64/barebox.lds.S b/arch/arm/lib64/barebox.lds.S
index a06a078d4142..40c25830cbb9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib64/barebox.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib64/barebox.lds.S
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ SECTIONS
RO_DATA_SECTION
} :rodata
+ BAREBOX_RELOCATION_TABLE
+
.dynamic : { *(.dynamic) } :rodata :dynamic
. = ALIGN(4096);
--
2.47.3
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