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[v7,1/5] arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement

Message ID 20200902025347.2504702-2-keescook@chromium.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Warn on orphan section placement | expand

Commit Message

Kees Cook Sept. 2, 2020, 2:53 a.m. UTC 
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.

With all sections now handled, enable orphan section warnings.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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 arch/arm64/Makefile | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index 6de7f551b821..081144fcc3da 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@  LDFLAGS_vmlinux	+= --fix-cortex-a53-843419
   endif
 endif
 
+# We never want expected sections to be placed heuristically by the
+# linker. All sections should be explicitly named in the linker script.
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(call ld-option, --orphan-handling=warn)
+
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM64_USE_LSE_ATOMICS), y)
   ifneq ($(CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS), y)
 $(warning LSE atomics not supported by binutils)