From 3287ebd7fd01e853ca4da8be675322429400e2bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ojaswin Mujoo Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 01:54:37 +0530 Subject: powerpc/boot: Fix incorrect version calculation issue in ld_version The ld_version() function computes the wrong version value for certain ld versions such as the following: $ ld --version GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.37.20211103-150100.7.37 For input 2.37.20211103, the value computed is 202348030000 which is higher than the value for a later version like 2.39.0, which is 23900000. This issue was highlighted because with the above ld version, the powerpc kernel build started failing with ld error: "unrecognized option --no-warn-rwx-segments". This was caused due to the recent commit 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") which added the --no-warn-rwx-segments linker flag if the ld version is greater than 2.39. Due to the bug in ld_version(), ld version 2.37.20111103 is wrongly calculated to be greater than 2.39 and the unsupported flag is added. To fix it, if version is of the form x.y.z and length(z) == 8, then most probably it is a date [yyyymmdd] commonly used for release snapshots and not an actual new version. Hence, ignore the date part replacing it with 0. Fixes: 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo [mpe: Tweak change log wording/formatting, add Fixes tag] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104202437.90039-1-ojaswin@linux.ibm.com --- arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper index af04cea82b94..352d7de24018 100755 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper @@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ ld_version() gsub(".*version ", ""); gsub("-.*", ""); split($1,a, "."); + if( length(a[3]) == "8" ) + # a[3] is probably a date of format yyyymmdd used for release snapshots. We + # can assume it to be zero as it does not signify a new version as such. + a[3] = 0; print a[1]*100000000 + a[2]*1000000 + a[3]*10000; exit }' -- cgit v1.2.3