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authorJoe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>2014-02-08 08:01:09 (GMT)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-02-14 04:24:50 (GMT)
commit80375980f1608f43b47abc2671456b23ec68c434 (patch)
tree305be1bb13f3535fffed254d5af46402b5d275af
parentef1b893c29d0dba778f67ad97b554b37f9108dcc (diff)
downloadlinux-80375980f1608f43b47abc2671456b23ec68c434.tar.xz
lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader
Here is the workaround I made for having the kernel not reject modules built with -flto. The clean solution would be to get the compiler to not emit the symbol. Or if it has to emit the symbol, then emit it as initialized data but put it into a comdat/linkonce section. Minor tweaks by AK over Joe's patch. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391846481-31491-5-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index d24fcf2..b99e801 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1948,6 +1948,10 @@ static int simplify_symbols(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
switch (sym[i].st_shndx) {
case SHN_COMMON:
+ /* Ignore common symbols */
+ if (!strncmp(name, "__gnu_lto", 9))
+ break;
+
/* We compiled with -fno-common. These are not
supposed to happen. */
pr_debug("Common symbol: %s\n", name);