Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: Conditionally export __vdso_sgx_enter_enclave

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Thu Nov 10 2022 - 15:46:34 EST


On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 4:04 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Recently, ld.lld moved from '--undefined-version' to
> '--no-undefined-version' as the default, which breaks building the vDSO
> when CONFIG_X86_SGX is not set:
>
> ld.lld: error: version script assignment of 'LINUX_2.6' to symbol '__vdso_sgx_enter_enclave' failed: symbol not defined
>
> __vdso_sgx_enter_enclave is only included in the vDSO when
> CONFIG_X86_SGX is set. Only export it if it will be present in the final
> object, which clears up the error.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1756
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> It would be nice if this could be picked up for an -rc release but I
> won't argue otherwise.

Sounds like the lld change got reverted, so this is less urgent now,
but the change still LGTM regardless. Thanks for the patch!

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 8466436952017 ("x86/vdso: Implement a vDSO for Intel SGX enclave call")


>
> Alternatively, we could add '--undefined-version' to the vDSO ldflags
> but this does not seem unreasonable to me.
>
> arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso.lds.S b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso.lds.S
> index 4bf48462fca7..e8c60ae7a7c8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso.lds.S
> @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ VERSION {
> __vdso_time;
> clock_getres;
> __vdso_clock_getres;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_SGX
> __vdso_sgx_enter_enclave;
> +#endif
> local: *;
> };
> }
>
> base-commit: f0c4d9fc9cc9462659728d168387191387e903cc
> --
> 2.38.1
>
>


--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers