On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:18:37PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > 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 named in the linker > script. > > Specifically, this would have made a recently fixed bug very obvious: > > ld: warning: orphan section `.fixup' from `arch/arm/lib/copy_from_user.o' being placed in section `.fixup' > > Discard unneeded sections .iplt, .rel.iplt, .igot.plt, and .modinfo. > > Add missing text stub sections .vfp11_veneer and .v4_bx. > > Add debug sections explicitly. > > Finally enable orphan section warning. This is unrelated to this patch as such, but I noticed that ARM32/64 places the .got section inside .text -- is that expected on ARM?
