With UEFI support added to the decompressor, we may end up including
C code that is part of the kernel proper, but is rebuilt for the
decompressor. This may result in ksymtab/kcrctab metadata being
duplicated into the decompressor, so discard such regions explicitly.
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index 81c493156ce8..1fa62432e283 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ SECTIONS
* of the text/got segments.
*/
*(.data)
+ /*
+ * C code that is shared with the kernel proper (but rebuilt for the
+ * decompressor) may contain exports that we have no use for here.
+ */
+ *(*ksymtab* *kcrctab*)
}
. = TEXT_START;
--
2.9.3
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