powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue Mar 14 22:45:59 AEDT 2017
On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 23:40:21 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Recent toolchains force the TOC to be 256 byte aligned. We need to
> enforce this alignment in the zImage linker script, otherwise pointers
> to our TOC variables (__toc_start) could be incorrect. If the actual
> start of the TOC and __toc_start don't have the same value we crash
> early in the zImage wrapper.
>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Applied to powerpc fixes.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/97ee351b50a49717543533cfb85b4b
cheers
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