The following commit has been merged into the x86/build branch of tip: Commit-ID: ec556271bbb33809b73cdb238f8cb357345908e8 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/ec556271bbb33809b73cdb238f8cb357345908e8 Author: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> AuthorDate: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:13:23 -07:00 Committer: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> CommitterDate: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:33:28 +01:00
powerpc: Rename "notes" PT_NOTE to "note" The Program Header identifiers are internal to the linker scripts. In preparation for moving the NOTES segment declaration into RO_DATA, standardize the identifier for the PT_NOTE entry to "note" as used by all other architectures that emit PT_NOTE. Note that there was discussion about changing all architectures to use "notes" instead, but I prefer to avoid that at this time. Changing only powerpc is the smallest change to standardize the entire kernel. And while this standardization does use singular "note" for a section that has more than one note in it, this is just an internal identifier. It matches the ELF "PT_NOTE", and is 4 characters (like "text", and "data") for pretty alignment. The more exposed macro, "NOTES", use the more sensible plural wording. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-al...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-c6x-...@linux-c6x.org Cc: linux-i...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Simek <mon...@monstr.eu> Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgeco...@intel.com> Cc: Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> Cc: x86-ml <x...@kernel.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ys...@users.sourceforge.jp> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-2-keesc...@chromium.org --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 060a1ac..81e6726 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ENTRY(_stext) PHDRS { kernel PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWX */ - notes PT_NOTE FLAGS(0); + note PT_NOTE FLAGS(0); dummy PT_NOTE FLAGS(0); /* binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ SECTIONS #endif EXCEPTION_TABLE(0) - NOTES :kernel :notes + NOTES :kernel :note /* The dummy segment contents for the bug workaround mentioned above near PHDRS. */
