| LLD 13 and GNU ld 2.37 support -z start-stop-gc which allows garbage |
| collection of C identifier name sections despite the __start_/__stop_ |
| references. Simply set the retain attribute so that GCC 11 (if |
| configure-time binutils is 2.36 or newer)/Clang 13 will set the |
| SHF_GNU_RETAIN section attribute to prevent garbage collection. |
| |
| Without the patch, there are linker errors like the following with -z |
| start-stop-gc: |
| ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __stop___cmd |
| >>> referenced by iw.c:418 |
| >>> iw.o:(__handle_cmd) |
| |
| Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> |
| |
| Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org |
| |
| Signed-off-by: Manoj Gupta <manojgupta@google.com> |
| |
| crbug/1201805 |
| |
| https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20210426163021.3594482-1-manojgupta@google.com/ |
| |
| --- |
| Changes v1 -> v2: |
| Apply the retain attribute to all places with attribute used. |
| |
| iw.h | 12 ++++++++---- |
| 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) |
| |
| diff --git a/iw.h b/iw.h |
| index 7f7f4fc..8ca8e44 100644 |
| --- a/iw.h |
| +++ b/iw.h |
| @@ -118,8 +118,9 @@ struct chandef { |
| .parent = _section, \ |
| .selector = (_sel), \ |
| }; \ |
| + _Pragma("GCC diagnostic ignored \"-Wattributes\"") \ |
| static struct cmd *__cmd ## _ ## _symname ## _ ## _handler ## _ ## _nlcmd ## _ ## _idby ## _ ## _hidden ## _p \ |
| - __attribute__((used,section("__cmd"))) = \ |
| + __attribute__((used,retain,section("__cmd"))) = \ |
| &__cmd ## _ ## _symname ## _ ## _handler ## _ ## _nlcmd ## _ ## _idby ## _ ## _hidden |
| #define __ACMD(_section, _symname, _name, _args, _nlcmd, _flags, _hidden, _idby, _handler, _help, _sel, _alias)\ |
| __COMMAND(_section, _symname, _name, _args, _nlcmd, _flags, _hidden, _idby, _handler, _help, _sel);\ |
| @@ -141,16 +142,18 @@ struct chandef { |
| .handler = (_handler), \ |
| .help = (_help), \ |
| }; \ |
| + _Pragma("GCC diagnostic ignored \"-Wattributes\"") \ |
| static struct cmd *__section ## _ ## _name ## _p \ |
| - __attribute__((used,section("__cmd"))) = &__section ## _ ## _name |
| + __attribute__((used,retain,section("__cmd"))) = &__section ## _ ## _name |
| |
| #define SECTION(_name) \ |
| struct cmd __section ## _ ## _name = { \ |
| .name = (#_name), \ |
| .hidden = 1, \ |
| }; \ |
| + _Pragma("GCC diagnostic ignored \"-Wattributes\"") \ |
| static struct cmd *__section ## _ ## _name ## _p \ |
| - __attribute__((used,section("__cmd"))) = &__section ## _ ## _name |
| + __attribute__((used,retain,section("__cmd"))) = &__section ## _ ## _name |
| |
| #define DECLARE_SECTION(_name) \ |
| extern struct cmd __section ## _ ## _name; |
| @@ -162,13 +165,14 @@ struct vendor_event { |
| }; |
| |
| #define VENDOR_EVENT(_id, _subcmd, _callback) \ |
| + _Pragma("GCC diagnostic ignored \"-Wattributes\"") \ |
| const struct vendor_event \ |
| vendor_event_ ## _id ## _ ## _subcmd = { \ |
| .vendor_id = _id, \ |
| .subcmd = _subcmd, \ |
| .callback = _callback, \ |
| }, * const vendor_event_ ## _id ## _ ## _subcmd ## _p \ |
| - __attribute__((used,section("vendor_event"))) = \ |
| + __attribute__((used,retain,section("vendor_event"))) = \ |
| &vendor_event_ ## _id ## _ ## _subcmd |
| |
| extern const char iw_version[]; |
| |