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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 03:44:52 -0800 From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot/compressed: Remove unnecessary sections from bzImage On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote: > Discarding the sections that are unused in the compressed kernel saves > about 10 KiB on 32-bit and 6 KiB on 64-bit, mostly from .eh_frame. > > Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> Looks good to me. I was worried this would paper over the problem, but actually this solves it even more directly by removing the troublesome sections. So, yes, let's do this too. :) Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> -- Kees Cook
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