On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 03:06:28PM -0700, Fangrui Song wrote:
> LLD may report warnings for 3 synthetic sections if they are orphans:
>
> ld.lld: warning: <internal>:(.symtab) is being placed in '.symtab'
> ld.lld: warning: <internal>:(.shstrtab) is being placed in '.shstrtab'
> ld.lld: warning: <internal>:(.strtab) is being placed in '.strtab'
>
> Are they described?
Perhaps:
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index db600ef218d7..57e9c142e401 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -792,6 +792,9 @@
.stab.exclstr 0 : { *(.stab.exclstr) } \
.stab.index 0 : { *(.stab.index) } \
.stab.indexstr 0 : { *(.stab.indexstr) } \
+ .symtab 0 : { *(.symtab) } \
+ .strtab 0 : { *(.strtab) } \
+ .shstrtab 0 : { *(.shstrtab) } \
.comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG
--
Kees Cook
