The initial three entries in .got.plt are "static", i.e. present
independent of actual entries allocation of which is triggered by
respective relocations. When no real entries are needed, halfway recent
ld discards the "static" portion of the table as well, but older GNU ld
fails to do so.
Fixes: dedb0aa42c6d ("x86/build: use --orphan-handling linker option if
available")
Reported-by: Julien Grall <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
--- a/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
@@ -497,7 +497,13 @@ ASSERT(IS_ALIGNED(__bss_end, 8),
#ifndef EFI
ASSERT(!SIZEOF(.got), ".got non-empty")
-ASSERT(!SIZEOF(.got.plt), ".got.plt non-empty")
+/*
+ * At least GNU ld 2.30 and earlier fail to discard the generic part of
+ * .got.plt when no actual entries were allocated. Permit this case alongside
+ * the section being empty.
+ */
+ASSERT(!SIZEOF(.got.plt) || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 3 * 8,
+ "unexpected .got.plt size")
ASSERT(!SIZEOF(.igot.plt), ".igot.plt non-empty")
ASSERT(!SIZEOF(.iplt), ".iplt non-empty")
ASSERT(!SIZEOF(.plt), ".plt non-empty")
