This patch fixes segfault of all user space processes (including init, which 
caused a panic) on recent buildroot powerpc32 builds.

The issue has been reported by Romain Naour in this thread: 
https://mailman.uclibc-ng.org/pipermail/devel/2021-May/002068.html

Recent buildroot toolchain enables secure PLT in powerpc gcc.
The latter will then supply -msecure-plt to gas invocations by default.
Recent buildroot also enables PIE by default.

For the secure PLT to work in PIC, the r30 register needs to point to the GOT.
Old "bss plt" was just a one-instruction-wide PLT slot, pointed-to by a 
R_PPC_JMP_SLOT relocation, which was written on-the-fly to contain a branch 
instruction to the correct address. It therefore had to stay 
writable+executable, which you generally want to avoid for security reasons.
New secure PLT only contains read-only code which loads the branch address from 
the writable GOT.

Note: secure PLT without PIC does not need r30 to be set. Because offset 
between plt stub code and got is known at link-time. In this case the PLT entry 
looks like:
1009b3e0 <__uClibc_main@plt>:
1009b3e0:       3d 60 10 0e     lis     r11,4110
1009b3e4:       81 6b 03 74     lwz     r11,884(r11)
1009b3e8:       7d 69 03 a6     mtctr   r11
1009b3ec:       4e 80 04 20     bctr

Whereas secure PLT with PIC - offset between plt and got is unknown at 
link-time - looks like this:
000af800 <00000000.plt_pic32.__uClibc_main>:
   af800:       81 7e 03 80     lwz     r11,896(r30)
   af804:       7d 69 03 a6     mtctr   r11
   af808:       4e 80 04 20     bctr
   af80c:       60 00 00 00     nop

Signed-off-by: Yann Sionneau <y...@sionneau.net>
---
 Rules.mak                         | 3 ++-
 ldso/ldso/powerpc/dl-startup.h    | 3 +++
 libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/crt1.S | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Rules.mak b/Rules.mak
index 1fa09be23..c789aefd3 100644
--- a/Rules.mak
+++ b/Rules.mak
@@ -483,9 +483,10 @@ ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),powerpc)
        PICFLAG:=-fpic
        PIEFLAG_NAME:=-fpie
        PPC_HAS_REL16:=$(shell printf "\t.text\n\taddis 
11,30,_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_-.@ha\n" | $(CC) -c -x assembler -o /dev/null -  2> 
/dev/null && echo -n y || echo -n n)
+       PPC_HAS_SECUREPLT:=$(shell $(CC) --verbose 2>&1 | grep -- 
--enable-secureplt > /dev/null && echo -n y || echo -n n)
+       CPU_CFLAGS-$(PPC_HAS_SECUREPLT) += -DPPC_HAS_SECUREPLT
        CPU_CFLAGS-$(PPC_HAS_REL16)+= -DHAVE_ASM_PPC_REL16
        CPU_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_E500) += "-D__NO_MATH_INLINES"
-
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),bfin)
diff --git a/ldso/ldso/powerpc/dl-startup.h b/ldso/ldso/powerpc/dl-startup.h
index 8b2a517e2..7749395eb 100644
--- a/ldso/ldso/powerpc/dl-startup.h
+++ b/ldso/ldso/powerpc/dl-startup.h
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ __asm__(
 #else
     "  bl      _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_-4@local\n" /*  Put our GOT pointer in 
r31, */
     "  mflr    31\n"
+#endif
+#ifdef PPC_HAS_SECUREPLT
+    "   mr      30,31\n"
 #endif
     "  addi    1,1,16\n" /* Restore SP */
     "  lwz     7,_dl_skip_args@got(31)\n" /* load EA of _dl_skip_args */
diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/crt1.S 
b/libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/crt1.S
index 27bfc5a5a..3f5d056c0 100644
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/crt1.S
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/crt1.S
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ _start:
 # else
        bl      _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_-4@local
        mflr    r31
+# endif
+       /* in PIC/PIE, plt stubs need r30 to point to the GOT if using 
secure-plt */
+# ifdef PPC_HAS_SECUREPLT
+       mr      30,31
 # endif
 #endif
        /* Set up the small data pointer in r13.  */
-- 
2.25.1

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