Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Warn on orphan section placement

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On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 07:58:25AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 7:53 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Ingo,
> > >
> > > The ever-shortening series. ;) Here is "v7", which is just the remaining
> > > Makefile changes to enable orphan section warnings, now updated to
> > > include ld-option calls.
> > >
> > > Thanks for getting this all into -tip!
> > 
> > For the series,
> > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > As the recent ppc vdso boogaloo exposed, what about the vdsos?
> > * arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
> > * arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
> > * arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> > * arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
> 
> Kees, will these patches DTRT for the vDSO builds? I will be unable to test 
> these patches on that old system until tomorrow the earliest.

I would like to see VDSO done next, but it's entirely separate from
this series. This series only touches the core kernel build (i.e. via the
interactions with scripts/link-vmlinux.sh) or the boot stubs. So there
is no impact on VDSO linking.

> I'm keeping these latest changes in WIP.core/build for now.

They should be safe to land in -next, which is important so we can shake
out any other sneaky sections that all our existing testing hasn't
found. :)

-- 
Kees Cook



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