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The BFD linker generates run-time relocations for z_input_len and z_output_len, even though they are absolute symbols. This is fixed for binutils-2.35 [1]. Work around this for earlier versions by defining two variables input_len and output_len in addition to the symbols, and use them via position-independent references. This eliminates the last two run-time relocations in the head code and allows us to drop the -z noreloc-overflow flag to the linker. Move the -pie and --no-dynamic-linker LDFLAGS to LDFLAGS_vmlinux instead of KBUILD_LDFLAGS. There shouldn't be anything else getting linked, but this is the more logical location for these flags, and modversions might call the linker if an EXPORT_SYMBOL is left over accidentally in one of the decompressors. [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25754 Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731230820.1742553-7-keescook@chromium.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.