[PATCH 6.3] riscv: Link with '-z norelro'

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:44:50 PDT (-0700), nathan at kernel.org wrote:
> This patch fixes a stable only patch, so it has no direct upstream
> equivalent.
>
> After a stable only patch to explicitly handle the '.got' section to
> handle an orphan section warning from the linker, certain configurations
> error when linking with ld.lld, which enables relro by default:
>
>   ld.lld: error: section: .got is not contiguous with other relro sections
>
> This has come up with other architectures before, such as arm and arm64
> in commit 0cda9bc15dfc ("ARM: 9038/1: Link with '-z norelro'") and
> commit 3b92fa7485eb ("arm64: link with -z norelro regardless of
> CONFIG_RELOCATABLE"). Additionally, '-z norelro' is used unconditionally
> for RISC-V upstream after commit 26e7aacb83df ("riscv: Allow to
> downgrade paging mode from the command line"), which alluded to this
> issue for the same reason. Bring 6.3 in line with mainline and link with
> '-z norelro', which resolves the above link failure.
>
> Fixes: e6d1562dd4e9 ("riscv: vmlinux.lds.S: Explicitly handle '.got' section")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202306192231.DJmWr6BX-lkp@intel.com/
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Makefile b/arch/riscv/Makefile
> index b05e833a022d..d46b6722710f 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
>  #
>
>  OBJCOPYFLAGS    := -O binary
> -LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=
> +LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -z norelro
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE),y)
>  	LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --no-relax
>  	KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DCC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
>
> ---
> base-commit: f2427f9a3730e9a1a11b69f6b767f7f2fad87523
> change-id: 20230620-6-3-fix-got-relro-error-lld-397f3112860b
>
> Best regards,

Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>

Thanks!