x86/vdso: Improve the fake section headers
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:59:48 +0000 (15:59 -0700)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:45:12 +0000 (15:45 -0700)
commitbfad381c0d1e19cae8461e105d8d4387dd2a14fe
treec4f4fba23ad53bfe9c6f99c4c9156716fa3fa5c5
parentc1979c370273fd9f7326ffa27a63b9ddb0f495f4
x86/vdso: Improve the fake section headers

Fully stripping the vDSO has other unfortunate side effects:

 - binutils is unable to find ELF notes without a SHT_NOTE section.

 - Even elfutils has trouble: it can find ELF notes without a section
   table at all, but if a section table is present, it won't look for
   PT_NOTE.

 - gdb wants section names to match between stripped DSOs and their
   symbols; otherwise it will corrupt symbol addresses.

We're also breaking the rules: section 0 is supposed to be SHT_NULL.

Fix these problems by building a better fake section table.  While
we're at it, we might as well let buggy Go versions keep working well
by giving the SHT_DYNSYM entry the correct size.

This is a bit unfortunate: it adds quite a bit of size to the vdso
image.

If/when binutils improves and the improved versions become widespread,
it would be worth considering dropping most of this.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0e546a5eeaafdf1840e6ee654a55c1e727c26663.1403129369.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
arch/x86/vdso/vdso-fakesections.c
arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
arch/x86/vdso/vdso.lds.S
arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.c
arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h
arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/vdso-fakesections.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/x86/vdso/vdsox32.lds.S