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. With all sections now handled, enable orphan section warning. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile index 00602a6fba04..b8a97d81662d 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ endif LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-undefined # Delete all temporary local symbols LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -X +# Report orphan sections +LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --orphan-handling=warn # Next argument is a linker script LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -T -- 2.25.1