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 4346ffb2e39f..ccacbf808552 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -209,6 +209,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -z max-page-size=0x200000 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 + archscripts: scripts_basic $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=arch/x86/tools relocs -- 2.25.1
