We don't want to depend on the linker's orphan section placement heuristics as these can vary between linkers, and may change between versions. All sections need to be explicitly handled in the linker script.
Now that all sections are explicitly handled, enable orphan section warnings. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile index 5b7f6e175b03..871cc071c925 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ KBUILD_LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option,--no-ld-generated-unwind-info) # Compressed kernel should be built as PIE since it may be loaded at any # address by the bootloader. LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -pie $(call ld-option, --no-dynamic-linker) +LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(call ld-option, --orphan-handling=warn) LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -T hostprogs := mkpiggy -- 2.25.1
