x86, relocs: Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the relative whitelist
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Thu, 24 May 2012 14:01:38 +0000 (07:01 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 1 Jun 2012 07:18:26 +0000 (15:18 +0800)
commitc51ac8ac9a82d4883c9b62247cca98195da8cd63
treedc871515dea78e965673f76ea42f901a233af84b
parent3c47c685100285be39ff7e347f762480b448b956
x86, relocs: Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the relative whitelist

commit ea17e7414bc62e8d3bde8d08e3df1d921c518c17 upstream.

The symbol jiffies is created in the linker script as an alias to
jiffies_64.  Unfortunately this is done outside any section, and
apparently GNU ld 2.21 doesn't carry the section with it, so we end up
with an absolute symbol and therefore a broken kernel.

Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the whitelist.

The most disturbing bit with this discovery is that it shows that we
have had multiple linker bugs in this area crossing multiple
generations, and have been silently building bad kernels for some time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524171604.0d98284f3affc643e9714470@canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/tools/relocs.c