From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0d362be5b14200b77ecc2127936a5ff82fbffe41 upstream. Users of GNU ld (BFD) from binutils 2.39+ will observe multiple instances of a new warning when linking kernels in the form: ld: warning: vmlinux: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker ld: warning: vmlinux has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions Generally, we would like to avoid the stack being executable. Because there could be a need for the stack to be executable, assembler sources have to opt-in to this security feature via explicit creation of the .note.GNU-stack feature (which compilers create by default) or command line flag --noexecstack. Or we can simply tell the linker the production of such sections is irrelevant and to link the stack as --noexecstack. LLVM's LLD linker defaults to -z noexecstack, so this flag isn't strictly necessary when linking with LLD, only BFD, but it doesn't hurt to be explicit here for all linkers IMO. --no-warn-rwx-segments is currently BFD specific and only available in the current latest release, so it's wrapped in an ld-option check. While the kernel makes extensive usage of ELF sections, it doesn't use permissions from ELF segments. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/3af4127a-f453-4cf7-f133-a181cce06f73@xxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=ba951afb99912da01a6e8434126b8fac7aa75107 Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57009 Reported-and-tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -870,6 +870,9 @@ ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATI LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(call ld-option, --gc-sections,) endif +LDFLAGS += -z noexecstack +LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option,--no-warn-rwx-segments) + ifeq ($(CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS),y) LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(call ld-option, -X,) endif
