[PATCH v6 29/29] x86/boot/compressed: Warn on orphan section placement

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Fri Aug 21 15:43:10 EDT 2020


We don't want to depend on the linker's orphan section placement
heuristics as these can vary between linkers, and may change between
versions. All sections need to be explicitly handled in the linker
script.

Now that all sections are explicitly handled, enable orphan section
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 5b7f6e175b03..647e15837a28 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ KBUILD_LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option,--no-ld-generated-unwind-info)
 # Compressed kernel should be built as PIE since it may be loaded at any
 # address by the bootloader.
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -pie $(call ld-option, --no-dynamic-linker)
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --orphan-handling=warn
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -T
 
 hostprogs	:= mkpiggy
-- 
2.25.1




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