[PATCH v4 15/17] arm/boot: Warn on orphan section placement

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Mon Jun 29 02:18:38 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 named in the linker
script.

Use common macros for debug sections, discards, and text stubs. Add
discards for unwanted .note, and .rel sections. Finally, enable orphan
section warning.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile      |  2 ++
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 18 ++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 00602a6fba04..b8a97d81662d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ endif
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-undefined
 # Delete all temporary local symbols
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -X
+# Report orphan sections
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --orphan-handling=warn
 # Next argument is a linker script
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -T
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index 09ac33f52814..636e9ceb79ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 /*
  *  Copyright (C) 2000 Russell King
  */
+#include <asm/vmlinux.lds.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
 #define ZIMAGE_MAGIC(x) ( (((x) >> 24) & 0x000000ff) | \
@@ -17,8 +18,11 @@ ENTRY(_start)
 SECTIONS
 {
   /DISCARD/ : {
+    ARM_COMMON_DISCARD
     *(.ARM.exidx*)
     *(.ARM.extab*)
+    *(.note.*)
+    *(.rel.*)
     /*
      * Discard any r/w data - this produces a link error if we have any,
      * which is required for PIC decompression.  Local data generates
@@ -36,9 +40,7 @@ SECTIONS
     *(.start)
     *(.text)
     *(.text.*)
-    *(.gnu.warning)
-    *(.glue_7t)
-    *(.glue_7)
+    ARM_STUBS_TEXT
   }
   .table : ALIGN(4) {
     _table_start = .;
@@ -128,12 +130,8 @@ SECTIONS
   PROVIDE(__pecoff_data_size = ALIGN(512) - ADDR(.data));
   PROVIDE(__pecoff_end = ALIGN(512));
 
-  .stab 0		: { *(.stab) }
-  .stabstr 0		: { *(.stabstr) }
-  .stab.excl 0		: { *(.stab.excl) }
-  .stab.exclstr 0	: { *(.stab.exclstr) }
-  .stab.index 0		: { *(.stab.index) }
-  .stab.indexstr 0	: { *(.stab.indexstr) }
-  .comment 0		: { *(.comment) }
+  STABS_DEBUG
+  DWARF_DEBUG
+  ARM_DETAILS
 }
 ASSERT(_edata_real == _edata, "error: zImage file size is incorrect");
-- 
2.25.1




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