From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> In x86 kernel, .exit.text and .exit.data sections are discarded at runtime, not by linker. Add RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to generic DISCARDS and define it in x86 kernel linker script to keep them. Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200130224337.4150-1-hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 1e345f302a46..1e12c097d09b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #define LOAD_OFFSET __START_KERNEL_map #endif +#define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT #define EMITS_PT_NOTE #define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN 16 diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 303597e51396..1797f2c9bb41 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -894,10 +894,16 @@ * section definitions so that such archs put those in earlier section * definitions. */ +#ifdef RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT +#define EXIT_DISCARDS +#else +#define EXIT_DISCARDS \ + EXIT_TEXT \ + EXIT_DATA +#endif #define DISCARDS \ /DISCARD/ : { \ - EXIT_TEXT \ - EXIT_DATA \ + EXIT_DISCARDS \ EXIT_CALL \ *(.discard) \ *(.discard.*) \ -- 2.20.1