linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 01/15] selftests/x86/sgx: Fix a benign linker warning

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Date:   Fri, 29 Oct 2021 10:11:06 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>, jarkko@...nel.org,
        linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org, shuah@...nel.org,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com
Cc:     seanjc@...gle.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 01/15] selftests/x86/sgx: Fix a benign linker warning

On 10/29/21 10:09 AM, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> On 10/28/2021 5:26 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 10/28/21 1:37 PM, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>>> From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
>>>
>>> Pass a build id of "none" to the linker to suppress a warning about the
>>> build id being ignored:
>>>
>>>    /usr/bin/ld: warning: .note.gnu.build-id section discarded,
>>> --build-id
>>>    ignored.
>>
>> Do we have a good grasp on why this is producing a warning in the first
>> place?  This seems like something that could get merged quickly with one
>> more sentence in the changelog.
>>
> 
> How about a new changelog as below:
> 
> The enclave binary (test_encl.elf) is built with only three sections
> (tcs, text, and data) as controlled by its custom linker script.
> 
> If gcc is built with "--enable-linker-build-id" (this appears to be a
> common configuration even if it is by default off) then gcc will pass
> "--build-id" to the linker that will prompt it (the linker) to to write
> unique bits identifying the linked file to a ".note.gnu.build-id" section.
> 
> The section ".note.gnu.build-id" does not exist in the test enclave
> resulting in the following warning emitted by the linker:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: .note.gnu.build-id section discarded, --build-id
> ignored
> 
> The test enclave does not use the build id within the binary so fix the
> warning by passing a build id of "none" to the linker that will disable
> the setting from any earlier "--build-id" options and thus disable the
> attempt to write the build id to a ".note.gnu.build-id" section that
> does not exist.

Looks great, thanks for putting that together!