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. Now that all sections are explicitly handled, enable orphan section warnings. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Makefile | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile index 00e378de8bc0..f8a5b2333729 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --emit-relocs --discard-none 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 += --orphan-handling=warn + # # Prevent GCC from generating any FP code by mistake. # -- 2.25.1