From: Michael Ellerman Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 05:14:49 +0000 (+1100) Subject: powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment X-Git-Tag: v4.11-rc3~33^2~9 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=97ee351b50a49717543533cfb85b4bf9d88c9680;p=linux.git powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment Recent toolchains force the TOC to be 256 byte aligned. We need to enforce this alignment in the zImage linker script, otherwise pointers to our TOC variables (__toc_start) could be incorrect. If the actual start of the TOC and __toc_start don't have the same value we crash early in the zImage wrapper. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Alan Modra Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S index 861e72109df2..f080abfc2f83 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ SECTIONS } #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER + . = ALIGN(256); .got : { __toc_start = .;