[PATCH v2] powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapper

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 11:26:26 AEDT 2016


On Sat,  3 Dec 2016 22:06:28 +1100
Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> 
> The boot wrapper performs its own relocations and does not require
> PT_INTERP segment. However currently we don't tell the linker that.
> 
> Prior to binutils 2.28 that works OK. But since binutils commit
> 1a9ccd70f9a7 ("Fix the linker so that it will not silently generate ELF
> binaries with invalid program headers. Fix readelf to report such
> invalid binaries.") binutils tries to create a program header segment
> due to PT_INTERP, and the link fails because there is no space for it:
> 
>   ld: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries: Not enough room for program headers, try linking with -N
>   ld: final link failed: Bad value
> 
> So tell the linker not to do that, by passing --no-dynamic-linker.
> 
> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> [mpe: Drop dependency on ld-version.sh and massage change log]

Thanks for fixing that up, it looks good.

Thanks,
Nick


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