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* [PATCH] x86: Don't discard .exit.text and .exit.data at link-time
@ 2020-01-30 18:00 H.J. Lu
  2020-01-30 19:40 ` Kees Cook
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: H.J. Lu @ 2020-01-30 18:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Andy Lutomirski, Thomas Gleixner, Kees Cook, Thomas Lendacky,
	Sami Tolvanen, Heiko Carstens, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov,
	H . Peter Anvin, x86, Yu-cheng Yu

Since .exit.text and .exit.data sections are discarded at runtime, we
should undefine EXIT_TEXT and EXIT_DATA to exclude .exit.text and
.exit.data sections from default discarded sections.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index d1b942365d27..fb2c45cb1d1f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -416,6 +416,12 @@ SECTIONS
 	STABS_DEBUG
 	DWARF_DEBUG
 
+	/* Sections to be discarded.  EXIT_TEXT and EXIT_DATA discard at runtime.
+	 * not link time.  */
+#undef EXIT_TEXT
+#define EXIT_TEXT
+#undef EXIT_DATA
+#define EXIT_DATA
 	DISCARDS
 	/DISCARD/ : {
 		*(.eh_frame)
-- 
2.24.1


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2020-01-30 19:58     ` Kees Cook
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2020-01-30 20:47         ` [PATCH] Add RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to generic DISCARDS H.J. Lu
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