[RFC PATCH 08/10] arm: efi_loader: move .dynamic out of .text in EFI

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 5/20/23 22:55, Sam Edwards wrote:
> This is not proper: A .text section is SHT_PROGBITS,
> while the .dynamic section is SHT_DYNAMIC. Attempting to
> combine them like this creates a section type mismatch.
>
> It does seem that GNU ld does not complain, but LLVM's lld
> considers this an error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <CFSworks at gmail.com>
> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>
>   arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds b/arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds
> index 5dd9809169..986f13936d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds
> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds
> @@ -24,10 +24,9 @@ SECTIONS
>   		*(.gnu.linkonce.t.*)
>   		*(.srodata)
>   		*(.rodata*)
> -		. = ALIGN(16);

.dynamic should be aligned. Structure Elf64_Dyn requires at least 8 byte
alignment.

> -		*(.dynamic);
>   		. = ALIGN(512);

The symbol _etext below should be 512 aligned as in
arch/arm/lib/crt0_aarch64_efi.S we have set FileAlignment = 0x200.

Best regards

Heinrich

>   	}
> +	.dynamic : { *(.dynamic) }
>   	.rela.dyn : { *(.rela.dyn) }
>   	.rela.plt : { *(.rela.plt) }
>   	.rela.got : { *(.rela.got) }