Hi,

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:20 AM Nick Desaulniers
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:45 AM Doug Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 9:49 PM Fangrui Song <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > arm64 references the start address of .builtin_fw (__start_builtin_fw)
> > > with a pair of R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21/R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC
> > > relocations. The compiler is allowed to emit the
> > > R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation because struct builtin_fw in
> > > include/linux/firmware.h is 8-byte aligned.
> > >
> > > The R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation requires the address to be a
> > > multiple of 8, which may not be the case if .builtin_fw is empty.
> > > Unconditionally align .builtin_fw to fix the linker error. 32-bit
> > > architectures could use ALIGN(4) but that would add unnecessary
> > > complexity, so just use ALIGN(8).
> > >
> > > Fixes: 5658c76 ("firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel 
> > > image")
> > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1204
> > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <[email protected]>
> > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Change in v2:
> > > * Use output section alignment instead of inappropriate ALIGN_FUNCTION()
> > > ---
> > >  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Tested-by: Douglas Anderson <[email protected]>
> >
> > For whatever reason this is hitting developers on Chrome OS a whole
> > lot suddenly.  Any chance it could be landed?  Which tree should it go
> > through?
>
> Andrew,
> Would you mind picking up this patch for us, please?
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

I just synced today and I'm still hitting this error when building
mainline.  Perhaps Andrew is busy and someone else can pick it up?
It'd be nice to get this into v5.11

-Doug

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