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BL31: discard .dynsym .dynstr .hash sections to make ENABLE_PIE work

When I tried ENABLE_PIE for my PLAT=uniphier platform, BL31 crashed
at its entry. When it is built with ENABLE_PIE=1, some sections are
inserted before the executable code.

$ make PLAT=uniphier CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- ENABLE_PIE=1 bl31
$ aarch64-linux-gnu-objdump -h build/uniphier/release/bl31/bl31.elf | head -n 13

build/uniphier/release/bl31/bl31.elf:     file format elf64-littleaarch64

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA               LMA               File off  Algn
  0 .dynsym       000002a0  0000000081000000  0000000081000000  00010000  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .dynstr       000002a0  00000000810002a0  00000000810002a0  000102a0  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  2 .hash         00000124  0000000081000540  0000000081000540  00010540  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  3 ro            0000699c  0000000081000664  0000000081000664  00010664  2**11
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE

The previous stage loader generally jumps over to the base address of
BL31, where no valid instruction exists.

I checked the linker script of Linux (arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S)
and U-Boot (arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds), both of which support
relocation. They simply discard those sections.

Do similar in TF-A too.

Change-Id: I6c33e9143856765d4ffa24f3924b0ab51a17cde9
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
pull/1937/head
Masahiro Yamada 5 years ago
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      bl31/bl31.ld.S

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bl31/bl31.ld.S

@ -339,6 +339,10 @@ SECTIONS
__RW_END__ = .;
__BL31_END__ = .;
/DISCARD/ : {
*(.dynsym .dynstr .hash .gnu.hash)
}
ASSERT(. <= BL31_LIMIT, "BL31 image has exceeded its limit.")
#endif
}

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