v2: - split by architecture, rebase to v5.8-rc2 v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200228002244.15240-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ A recent bug[1] was solved for builds linked with ld.lld, and tracking it down took way longer than it needed to (a year). Ultimately, it boiled down to differences between ld.bfd and ld.lld's handling of orphan sections. Similarly, the recent FGKASLR series brough up orphan section handling too[2]. In both cases, it would have been nice if the linker was running with --orphan-handling=warn so that surprise sections wouldn't silently get mapped into the kernel image at locations up to the whim of the linker's orphan handling logic. Instead, all desired sections should be explicitly identified in the linker script (to be either kept or discarded) with any orphans throwing a warning. The powerpc architecture actually already does this, so this series extends coverage to x86. Thanks! -Kees [1] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/282 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202002242122.AA4D1B8@keescook/ Kees Cook (3): vmlinux.lds.h: Add .gnu.version* to DISCARDS x86/build: Warn on orphan section placement x86/boot: Warn on orphan section placement arch/x86/Makefile | 4 ++++ arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 3 ++- arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 +++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 ++++++ include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 + 5 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.25.1
