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* [PATCH] lkdtm: Fix targets for objcopy usage
@ 2016-07-29  2:30 Kees Cook
  2016-07-29  9:37 ` Mark Rutland
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2016-07-29  2:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Mark Rutland, Greg Kroah-Hartman, linux-kernel

The targets for lkdtm's objcopy were missing which caused them to always
be rebuilt. This corrects the problem.

Additionally, commit f8fa70f392fa ("arm64: localise Image objcopy flags")
has landed now, so this removes the work-around for the global OBJCOPY
flag setting.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 drivers/misc/Makefile | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/Makefile b/drivers/misc/Makefile
index 4387ccb79e64..132f4e3462ba 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/misc/Makefile
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ lkdtm-$(CONFIG_LKDTM)		+= lkdtm_perms.o
 lkdtm-$(CONFIG_LKDTM)		+= lkdtm_rodata_objcopy.o
 lkdtm-$(CONFIG_LKDTM)		+= lkdtm_usercopy.o
 
-OBJCOPYFLAGS :=
 OBJCOPYFLAGS_lkdtm_rodata_objcopy.o := \
 			--set-section-flags .text=alloc,readonly \
 			--rename-section .text=.rodata
-$(obj)/lkdtm_rodata_objcopy.o: $(obj)/lkdtm_rodata.o
+targets += lkdtm_rodata.o lkdtm_rodata_objcopy.o
+$(obj)/lkdtm_rodata_objcopy.o: $(obj)/lkdtm_rodata.o FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,objcopy)
-- 
2.7.4


-- 
Kees Cook
Brillo & Chrome OS Security

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