Recent addition of ARM64_PTR_AUTH exposed a mismatch issue with binutils.
9.1+ versions of gcc inserts a section note .note.gnu.property but this
can be used properly by binutils version greater than 2.33.1. If older
binutils are used then the following warnings are generated,
aarch64-linux-ld: warning: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000
aarch64-linux-objdump: warning: arch/arm64/lib/csum.o: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000
aarch64-linux-nm: warning: .tmp_vmlinux1: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000
This patch enables ARM64_PTR_AUTH when gcc and binutils versions are
compatible with each other. Older gcc which do not insert such section
continue to work as before.
This scenario may not occur with clang as a recent commit
3b446c7d27ddd06
("arm64: Kconfig: verify binutils support for ARM64_PTR_AUTH") masks
binutils version lesser then 2.34.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: slight adjustment to the comment]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
default y
depends on !KVM || ARM64_VHE
depends on (CC_HAS_SIGN_RETURN_ADDRESS || CC_HAS_BRANCH_PROT_PAC_RET) && AS_HAS_PAC
- depends on CC_IS_GCC || (CC_IS_CLANG && AS_HAS_CFI_NEGATE_RA_STATE)
+ # GCC 9.1 and later inserts a .note.gnu.property section note for PAC
+ # which is only understood by binutils starting with version 2.33.1.
+ depends on !CC_IS_GCC || GCC_VERSION < 90100 || LD_VERSION >= 233010000
+ depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_HAS_CFI_NEGATE_RA_STATE
depends on (!FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS)
help
Pointer authentication (part of the ARMv8.3 Extensions) provides