A recent LLVM commit [1] started generating an .ARM.attributes section similar to the one that exists for 32-bit, which results in orphan section warnings (or errors if CONFIG_WERROR is enabled) from the linker because it is not handled in the arm64 linker scripts.
ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o:(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes' ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom.o:(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/vsprintf.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes' ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/win_minmax.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes' ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/xarray.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
Discard the new sections in the necessary linker scripts to resolve the warnings, as the kernel and vDSO do not need to retain it, similar to the .note.gnu.property section.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: b3e5d80d0c48 ("arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement") Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/ee99c4d4845db66c4daa2373352133f4... [1] Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org --- Changes in v2: - Discard the section instead of adding it to the final artifacts to mirror the .note.gnu.property section handling (Will). - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250124-arm64-handle-arm-attributes-in-linker-scr... --- arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S index 4ec32e86a8da..8095fef66209 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.data .data.* .gnu.linkonce.d.* .sdata*) *(.bss .sbss .dynbss .dynsbss) *(.eh_frame .eh_frame_hdr) + *(.ARM.attributes) } }
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index f84c71f04d9e..e73326bd3ff7 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ SECTIONS /DISCARD/ : { *(.interp .dynamic) *(.dynsym .dynstr .hash .gnu.hash) + *(.ARM.attributes) }
. = KIMAGE_VADDR;
--- base-commit: 1dd3393696efba1598aa7692939bba99d0cffae3 change-id: 20250123-arm64-handle-arm-attributes-in-linker-script-82aee25313ac
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