From: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
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commit 6915e04f8847bea16d0890f559694ad8eedd026c upstream.
The linker script cleanup that I did in commit 5d150a97f93 ("um: Clean up
linker script using standard macros.") (2.6.32) accidentally introduced an
ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) when converting to use INIT_TEXT_SECTION; Richard
Weinberger reported that this causes the kernel to segfault with
CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y.
I'm not certain why this extra alignment is a problem, but it seems likely
it is because previously
__init_begin = _stext = _text = _sinittext
and with the extra ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE), _sinittext becomes different from the
rest. So there is likely a bug here where something is assuming that
_sinittext is the same as one of those other symbols. But reverting the
accidental change fixes the regression, so it seems worth committing that
now.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Tested by: Antoine Martin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
---
arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S b/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
index e7a6cca..664f942 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ SECTIONS
_text = .;
_stext = .;
__init_begin = .;
- INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
+ INIT_TEXT_SECTION(0)
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
.text :
--
1.7.4.4
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