Patch "m68k: add missing SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT linker section" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

m68k: add missing SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT linker section

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
m68k-add-missing-softirqentry_text-linker-section.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Greg Ungerer <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:50:07 +1000
Subject: m68k: add missing SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT linker section

From: Greg Ungerer <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 969de0988b77e5a57aac2f7270191a3c50540c52 ]

Commit be7635e7287e ("arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections") added a new linker section, SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT, to the linker scripts for most architectures. It didn't add it to any of the linker scripts for the m68k architecture. This was not really a problem because it is only defined if either of CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER or CONFIG_KASAN are enabled - which can never be true for m68k.

However commit 229a71860547 ("irq: Make the irqentry text section unconditional") means that SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT is now always defined. So on m68k we now end up with a separate ELF section for .softirqentry.text instead of it being part of the .text section. On some m68k targets in some configurations this can also cause a fatal link error:

LD vmlinux
/usr/local/bin/../m68k-uclinux/bin/ld.real: section .softirqentry.text loaded at [0000000010de10c0,0000000010de12dd] overlaps section .rodata loaded at [0000000010de10c0,0000000010e0fd67]

To fix add in the missing SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT section into the m68k linker scripts. I noticed that m68k is also missing the IRQENTRY_TEXT section, so this patch also adds an entry for that too.

---
 arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-nommu.lds |    2 ++
 arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds   |    2 ++
 arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds  |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ SECTIONS {
 	.text : {
 		HEAD_TEXT
 		TEXT_TEXT
+		IRQENTRY_TEXT
+		SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT
 		SCHED_TEXT
 		CPUIDLE_TEXT
 		LOCK_TEXT

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ SECTIONS
   .text : {
 	HEAD_TEXT
 	TEXT_TEXT
+	IRQENTRY_TEXT
+	SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT
 	SCHED_TEXT
 	CPUIDLE_TEXT
 	LOCK_TEXT

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ SECTIONS
   .text : {
 	HEAD_TEXT
 	TEXT_TEXT
+	IRQENTRY_TEXT
+	SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT
 	SCHED_TEXT
 	CPUIDLE_TEXT
 	LOCK_TEXT

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/m68k-add-missing-softirqentry_text-linker-section.patch