linux.git/arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch v7.1

kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS

2026-02-26T18:50:19+00:00

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W  # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

openrisc: place exception table at the head of vmlinux

2024-12-10T12:04:19+00:00

Since commit 0043ecea2399 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Adjust symbol ordering in
text output section"), the exception table in arch/openrisc/kernel/head.S
is no longer positioned at the very beginning of the kernel image, which
causes a boot failure.

Currently, the exception table resides in the regular .text section.
Previously, it was placed at the head by relying on the linker receiving
arch/openrisc/kernel/head.o as the first object. However, this behavior
has changed because sections like .text.{asan,unknown,unlikely,hot} now
precede the regular .text section.

The .head.text section is intended for entry points requiring special
placement. However, in OpenRISC, this section has been misused: instead
of the entry points, it contains boot code meant to be discarded after
booting. This feature is typically handled by the .init.text section.

This commit addresses the issue by replacing the current __HEAD marker
with __INIT and re-annotating the entry points with __HEAD. Additionally,
it adds __REF to entry.S to suppress the following modpost warning:

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: _tng_kernel_start+0x70 (section: .text) -> _start (section: .init.text)

Fixes: 0043ecea2399 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Adjust symbol ordering in text output section")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5e032233-5b65-4ad5-ac50-d2eb6c00171c@roeck-us.net/#t
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck
Reviewed-by: Rong Xu
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne

objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr

2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00

Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As
such, add a little validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren 
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org

Merge tag 'core-build-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2020-10-12T20:39:19+00:00

Pull orphan section checking from Ingo Molnar:
 "Orphan link sections were a long-standing source of obscure bugs,
  because the heuristics that various linkers & compilers use to handle
  them (include these bits into the output image vs discarding them
  silently) are both highly idiosyncratic and also version dependent.

  Instead of this historically problematic mess, this tree by Kees Cook
  (et al) adds build time asserts and build time warnings if there's any
  orphan section in the kernel or if a section is not sized as expected.

  And because we relied on so many silent assumptions in this area, fix
  a metric ton of dependencies and some outright bugs related to this,
  before we can finally enable the checks on the x86, ARM and ARM64
  platforms"

* tag 'core-build-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/boot/compressed: Warn on orphan section placement
  x86/build: Warn on orphan section placement
  arm/boot: Warn on orphan section placement
  arm/build: Warn on orphan section placement
  arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement
  x86/boot/compressed: Add missing debugging sections to output
  x86/boot/compressed: Remove, discard, or assert for unwanted sections
  x86/boot/compressed: Reorganize zero-size section asserts
  x86/build: Add asserts for unwanted sections
  x86/build: Enforce an empty .got.plt section
  x86/asm: Avoid generating unused kprobe sections
  arm/boot: Handle all sections explicitly
  arm/build: Assert for unwanted sections
  arm/build: Add missing sections
  arm/build: Explicitly keep .ARM.attributes sections
  arm/build: Refactor linker script headers
  arm64/build: Assert for unwanted sections
  arm64/build: Add missing DWARF sections
  arm64/build: Use common DISCARDS in linker script
  arm64/build: Remove .eh_frame* sections due to unwind tables
  ...

vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG

2020-09-01T07:50:35+00:00

The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a
new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections
that need to be accounted for when linking with --orphan-handling=warn.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-5-keescook@chromium.org

openrisc: Add support for external initrd images

2020-08-04T01:59:45+00:00

In OpenRISC we set the initrd_start and initrd_end based on the symbols
we setup in vmlinux.lds.S.  However, this is not needed if we use the
generic linker description in INIT_DATA_SECTION.

Removing our own initrd setup reduces code, but also the generic code
supports loading external initrd images.  A bootloader can load a rootfs
image into memory and we can configure devicetree to load it with:

        chosen {
                bootargs = "earlycon";
                stdout-path = "uart0:115200";
                linux,initrd-start = < 0x08000100 >;
                linux,initrd-end = < 0x08200000 >;
        };

Reported-by: Mateusz Holenko 
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RW_DATA_SECTION with RW_DATA

2019-11-04T14:57:41+00:00

Rename RW_DATA_SECTION to RW_DATA. (Calling this a "section" is a lie,
since it's multiple sections and section flags cannot be applied to
the macro.)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven  # m68k
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-14-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RO_DATA_SECTION with RO_DATA

2019-11-04T14:56:16+00:00

Finish renaming RO_DATA_SECTION to RO_DATA. (Calling this a "section"
is a lie, since it's multiple sections and section flags cannot be
applied to the macro.)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven  # m68k
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-13-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Move NOTES into RO_DATA

2019-11-04T14:34:41+00:00

The .notes section should be non-executable read-only data. As such,
move it to the RO_DATA macro instead of being per-architecture defined.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-11-keescook@chromium.org

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman