The patch below does not apply to the 6.13-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.13.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x e7607f7d6d81af71dcc5171278aadccc94d277cd # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025040805-boaster-hazing-36c3@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.13.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From e7607f7d6d81af71dcc5171278aadccc94d277cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:33:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: 9443/1: Require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY for DCE

ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 does not support using the KEEP keyword within an overlay description, which may be needed to avoid discarding necessary sections within an overlay with '--gc-sections', which can be enabled for the kernel via CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION.

Disallow CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION without support for KEEP within OVERLAY and introduce a macro, OVERLAY_KEEP, that can be used to conditionally add KEEP when it is properly supported to avoid breaking old versions of ld.lld.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/381599f1fe973afad3094e55ec99b162... Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 202dbd17ad2f..25ed6f1a7c7a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ config ARM select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && !CPU_V7M select HAVE_KRETPROBES if HAVE_KPROBES - select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if (LD_VERSION >= 23600 || LD_IS_LLD) + select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if (LD_VERSION >= 23600 || LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY) select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC select HAVE_NMI select HAVE_OPTPROBES if !THUMB2_KERNEL diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h index 89697f204715..a54db342653a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ #define NOCROSSREFS #endif

+#ifdef CONFIG_LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY +#define OVERLAY_KEEP(x) KEEP(x) +#else +#define OVERLAY_KEEP(x) x +#endif + /* Set start/end symbol names to the LMA for the section */ #define ARM_LMA(sym, section) \ sym##_start = LOADADDR(section); \ diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index d0d021b3fa3b..fc994f5cd5db 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ config CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 depends on !(CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 190103)

+config LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY + # ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description + # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661 + def_bool LD_IS_BFD || LLD_VERSION >= 210000 + config RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400