[PATCH 7/7] arm64: add a workaround for GNU gold with ARM64_MODULE_PLTS

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 29 November 2017 at 23:44, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com> wrote:
> All current versions of GNU gold crash when linking kernel modules
> with ARM64_MODULE_PLTS due to a known bug:
>
>   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14592
>
> To work around the problem, this change removes NOLOAD from .plt
> and .init.plt.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
> index f7c9781a9d48..eacb5c67f61e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>  SECTIONS {
> -       .plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> -       .init.plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> +       .plt : { BYTE(0) }
> +       .init.plt : { BYTE(0) }
>  }
> --
> 2.15.0.531.g2ccb3012c9-goog
>