On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 07:06:59PM -0700, Tom Saeger wrote: > From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> > > commit 84d5f77fc2ee4e010c2c037750e32f06e55224b0 upstream. > > In the x86 kernel, .exit.text and .exit.data sections are discarded at > runtime, not by the linker. Add RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to generic DISCARDS > and define it in the x86 kernel linker script to keep them. > > The sections are added before the DISCARD directive so document here > only the situation explicitly as this change doesn't have any effect on > the generated kernel. Also, other architectures like ARM64 will use it > too so generalize the approach with the RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT define. > > [ bp: Massage and extend commit message. ] > > Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200326193021.255002-1-hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@xxxxxxxxxx> The encoding of this email was very odd, with dos line-ends? Something was odd on your side, all the others were fine. I've fixed it up... strange, greg k-h
