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Date:   Sun, 4 Oct 2020 19:44:52 -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 Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 09:00:18PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Kees,
> 
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 01:27:01 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > I assume CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS is enabled for your build (it should be for
> 
> yes, indeed.
> 
> > allmodconfig). Does this patch fix it? (I'm kind of blindly guessing
> > based on my understanding of where this could be coming from...)
> > 
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > index e1843976754a..22f14956214a 100644
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > @@ -701,6 +701,7 @@
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS
> >  #define KERNEL_CTORS()	. = ALIGN(8);			   \
> >  			__ctors_start = .;		   \
> > +			KEEP(*(SORT(.ctors.*)))		   \
> >  			KEEP(*(.ctors))			   \
> >  			KEEP(*(SORT(.init_array.*)))	   \
> >  			KEEP(*(.init_array))		   \
> 
> And that makes the messages go away.

Okay then! Thanks for testing. :) I'm not sure why the ppc-hosted
compiler generates those. Regardless, I'll send a proper patch...

-- 
Kees Cook