[PATCH v5 35/36] x86/boot/compressed: Warn on orphan section placement

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Fri Jul 31 19:08:19 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 43b49e1f5b6d..f8270d924858 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ 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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