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From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse•com>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux•org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel•org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k•org>,
	Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel•org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt•com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs•berkeley.edu>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google•com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti•fr>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel•org>,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse•com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel•org>,
	Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin•com>,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat•com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org,
	linux-m68k@lists•linux-m68k.org, linux-riscv@lists•infradead.org,
	linux-modules@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] module, arm: force sh_addr=0 for arch-specific sections
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:59:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260327080023.861105-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260327080023.861105-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com>

When linking modules with 'ld.bfd -r', sections defined without an address
inherit the location counter, resulting in non-zero sh_addr values in the
resulting .ko files. Relocatable objects are expected to have sh_addr=0 for
all sections. Non-zero addresses are confusing in this context, typically
worse compressible, and may cause tools to misbehave [1].

Force sh_addr=0 for all arm-specific module sections.

Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33958 [1]
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse•com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/module.lds.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/module.lds.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/module.lds.h
index 0e7cb4e314b4..f9ad774b2889 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/module.lds.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/module.lds.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_MODULE_PLTS
 SECTIONS {
-	.plt : { BYTE(0) }
-	.init.plt : { BYTE(0) }
+	.plt 0 : { BYTE(0) }
+	.init.plt 0 : { BYTE(0) }
 }
 #endif
-- 
2.53.0



  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-27  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-27  7:58 [PATCH 0/4] module: force sh_addr=0 for arch-specific sections Petr Pavlu
2026-03-27  7:59 ` Petr Pavlu [this message]
2026-03-27  7:59 ` [PATCH 2/4] module, arm64: " Petr Pavlu
2026-03-27  7:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] module, m68k: " Petr Pavlu
2026-03-27  7:59 ` [PATCH 4/4] module, riscv: " Petr Pavlu
2026-05-26 23:40 ` [PATCH 0/4] module: " Sami Tolvanen

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