The Program Header identifiers are internal to the linker scripts. In
preparation for moving the NOTES segment declaration into RO_DATA,
standardize the identifier for the PT_NOTE entry to "note" as used by
all other architectures that emit PT_NOTE.
Note that there was discussion about changing all architectures to use
"notes" instead, but I prefer to avoid that at this time. Changing only
powerpc is the smallest change to standardize the entire kernel. And
while this standardization does use singular "note" for a section that
has more than one note in it, this is just an internal identifier. It
matches the ELF "PT_NOTE", and is 4 characters (like "text", and "data")
for pretty alignment. The more exposed macro, "NOTES", use the more
sensible plural wording.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 060a1acd7c6d..81e672654789 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ENTRY(_stext)
PHDRS {
kernel PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWX */
- notes PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);
+ note PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);
dummy PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);
/* binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ SECTIONS
#endif
EXCEPTION_TABLE(0)
- NOTES :kernel :notes
+ NOTES :kernel :note
/* The dummy segment contents for the bug workaround mentioned above
near PHDRS. */
--
2.17.1
