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s390: always build relocatable kernel

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Nathan Chancellor reported several link errors on s390 with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE disabled, after binutils commit 906f69cf65da ("IBM
zSystems: Issue error for *DBL relocs on misaligned symbols"). The binutils
commit reveals potential miscompiles that might have happened already
before with linker script defined symbols at odd addresses.

A similar bug was recently fixed in the kernel with commit c9305b6c1f
("s390: fix nospec table alignments").

See https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1747 for an analysis
from Ulich Weigand.

Therefore always build a relocatable kernel to avoid this problem. There is
hardly any use-case for non-relocatable kernels, so this shouldn't be
controversial.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1747
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221030182202.2062705-1-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens 2022-10-30 19:22:02 +01:00 • committed by Alexander Gordeev
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