[PATCH v5 21/36] arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement

Kees Cook
2020-07-31T23:08:46Z

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.

With all sections now handled, enable orphan section warnings.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
arch/arm64/Makefile | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index 35de43c29873..b8a3142db0dd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --fix-cortex-a53-843419
endif
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 += --orphan-handling=warn
+
ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM64_USE_LSE_ATOMICS), y)
ifneq ($(CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS), y)
$(warning LSE atomics not supported by binutils)
--
2.25.1