Re: Upstream binutils commit a87e1817a435dab6c6c042f9306497c9f13d4236 breaks building the RISC-V vDSO

From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
To: "Fāng-ruì Sòng" <maskray@google.com>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Subject: Re: Upstream binutils commit a87e1817a435dab6c6c042f9306497c9f13d4236 breaks building the RISC-V vDSO
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:42:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200617024228.GA2330477@ubuntu-n2-xlarge-x86> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFP8O3+ydp6y9V4N1-9igHDhVjxqqYUecAYa3fT21FBTWtNx+w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Fangrui,

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 08:41:56AM -0700, Fāng-ruì Sòng wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 1:43 AM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Upstream binutils commit a87e1817a4 ("Have the linker fail if any attempt
> > to link in an executable is made.") causes the RISC-V vDSO to fail to
> > build properly (it is fixing this bug report:
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26047):
> >
> > $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux- O=out/riscv distclean defconfig arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/
> > riscv64-linux-ld: cannot use executable file 'arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso-dummy.o' as input to a link
> >
> > I do not really understand what the whole point of the vDSO rule is but
> > it seems like it should be fixed due to this change. Additionally, the
> > kernel has generally been getting rid of using $(CC) as a linker,
> > instead preferring to use $(LD) directly; it would be nice if the RISC-V
> > vDSO's Makefile could be rewritten to do that.
> >
> > See
> >
> > fe00e50b2db8 ("ARM: 8858/1: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
> > 691efbedc60d ("arm64: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
> > 2ff906994b6c ("MIPS: VDSO: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
> >
> > for more examples of that. I would take a stab at it myself but this
> > does not seem like a straight conversion due to the way the VDSOLD rule
> > is set up.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
> 
> I suggested that GNU ld from 2.35 onwards disallows accepting ET_EXEC
> as input (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26047 ). The
> error message is from the patch.
> Taking ET_EXEC files as input are usually errors.
> 
> If we do need to take ET_EXEC as input, we can change e_type in the
> ELF header to make the file an ET_REL
> 
> printf '\1' | dd of=${2} conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16 status=none
> (See http://git.kernel.org/linus/90ceddcb495008ac8ba7a3dce297841efcd7d584 )

Is there a convenient way to do this in a Makefile? The relevant rule
is:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile#n63

I am not sure if that is strictly necessary, hence the initial email.

Cheers,
Nathan