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Commit da30705c46 ("arch/powerpc: Remove .interp section in vmlinux")
intended to drop the .interp section from vmlinux but even with this
change, relocatable kernels linked with ld.lld contain an empty .interp
section, which ends up causing crashes in GDB [1].
$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc LLVM=1 clean pseries_le_defconfig vmlinux
$ llvm-readelf -S vmlinux | grep interp
[44] .interp PROGBITS c0000000021ddb34 21edb34 000000 00 A 0 0 1
There appears to be a subtle difference between GNU ld and ld.lld when
it comes to discarding sections that specify load addresses [2].
Since '--no-dynamic-linker' prevents emission of the .interp section,
there is no need to describe it in the output sections of the vmlinux
linker script. Drop the .interp section description from vmlinux.lds.S
to avoid this issue altogether.
Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33481 [1]
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2137 [2]
Reported-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251013040148.560439-1-vishalc@linux.ibm.com/
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251018-ppc-fix-lld-interp-v1-1-a083de6dccc9@kernel.org
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