linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 09/36] vmlinux.lds.h: Add .gnu.version* to COMMON

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Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:07:53 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, x86@...nel.org,
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Subject: [PATCH v5 09/36] vmlinux.lds.h: Add .gnu.version* to COMMON_DISCARDS

For vmlinux linking, no architecture uses the .gnu.version* sections,
so remove it via the COMMON_DISCARDS macro in preparation for adding
--orphan-handling=warn more widely. This is a work-around for what
appears to be a bug[1] in ld.bfd which warns for this synthetic section
even when none is found in input objects, and even when no section is
emitted for an output object[2].

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26153
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202006221524.CEB86E036B@keescook/

Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index ff65a20faf4c..22985cf02130 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -933,7 +933,9 @@
 #define COMMON_DISCARDS							\
 	*(.discard)							\
 	*(.discard.*)							\
-	*(.modinfo)
+	*(.modinfo)							\
+	/* ld.bfd warns about .gnu.version* even when not emitted */	\
+	*(.gnu.version*)						\
 
 #define DISCARDS							\
 	/DISCARD/ : {							\
-- 
2.25.1