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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2020-09-02 05:53:46 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-09-03 11:28:36 +0300
commit83109d5d5fba7abf362f5a443c9f4c4ea10bbc8d (patch)
tree0de659a8f2f4500bb1cec273df0f357406821aac
parent4409d2f8dfe7d5088567d4ba00133f876ee586c7 (diff)
downloadlinux-83109d5d5fba7abf362f5a443c9f4c4ea10bbc8d.tar.xz
x86/build: Warn on orphan section placement
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@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902025347.2504702-5-keescook@chromium.org
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Makefile4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 4346ffb2e39f..154259f18b8b 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 += $(call ld-option, --orphan-handling=warn)
+
archscripts: scripts_basic
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=arch/x86/tools relocs