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I ran into a link error on ARM64 for lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing: drivers/misc/built-in.o: In function `lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing': :(.rodata+0x68c8): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against symbol `__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc' defined in .text section in kernel/built-in.o I did not analyze this further, but my theory is that we would need a trampoline to call __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc(), but the linker (correctly) only adds trampolines for callers in executable sections. Disabling KCOV for this one file avoids the build failure with no other practical downsides I can think of. The problem can only happen on kernels that contain both kcov and lkdtm, so if we want to backport this, it should be in the earliest version that has both (v4.8). Fixes:5c9a8750a6("kernel: add kcov code coverage") Fixes:9a49a528dc("lkdtm: add function for testing .rodata section") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.