linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 mips-next 0/7] MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S sections fixes & cleanup

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jan 2021 13:51:39 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>
Cc:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Pei Huang <huangpei@...ngson.cn>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 mips-next 0/7] MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S sections fixes &
 cleanup

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 12:33:38PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> This series hunts the problems discovered after manual enabling of
> ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN. Notably:
>  - adds the missing PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA() section affecting VDSO
>    placement (marked for stable);
>  - properly stops .eh_frame section generation.
> 
> Compile and runtime tested on MIPS32R2 CPS board with no issues
> using two different toolkits:
>  - Binutils 2.35.1, GCC 10.2.0;
>  - LLVM stack 11.0.0.

Nice! Thanks for hunting down the corner cases. :)

-- 
Kees Cook