[PATCH v3 05/21] arm64: vdso: Discard .discard.* sections

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe at kernel.org
Tue May 12 20:34:01 PDT 2026


In preparation for enabling objtool on arm64, add .discard.* to the
vDSO's /DISCARD/ section so objtool annotations don't cause orphan
section warnings or leak into the final vDSO binary.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
index 52314be291912..d5f96fa17e605 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	/DISCARD/	: {
 		*(.note.GNU-stack .note.gnu.property)
 		*(.ARM.attributes)
+		*(.discard.*)
 	}
 	.note		: { *(.note.*) }		:text	:note
 
-- 
2.53.0




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