linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

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Date:   Sat, 3 Oct 2020 14:54:46 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 01:22:49PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
> produced this warning:
> 
> x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.ctors.65435' from `kernel/trace/trace_selftest_dynamic.o' being placed in section `.ctors.65435'
> [...]

Is it only trace that is warning?

> gcc (Debian 10.2.0-5) 10.2.0
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35

I can't reproduce this with:

gcc (Ubuntu 10.2.0-11ubuntu1) 10.2.0
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.35.1

Are you running Debian testing or unstable? (I see binutils 2.35.1 is
in both, so was this fixed in the .1?)

I will go build a Debian testing container...

-- 
Kees Cook