Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:52:23 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] x86/boot: explicitly place .eh_frame after .rodata |
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 09:46:23AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > Yep. Looks like: > - arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > - arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.lds.S > > discard .eh_frame, while > - arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S > - arch/x86/um/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S > > keep it. I assume then that just vdso code that get linked into > userspace needs to preserve this.
Yap, that's what I think too. Lemme add Andy to Cc.
> This suggestion would be a functional change, which is why we pursued > the conservative change preserving it.
Sure but what would be the purpose of preserving the section, especially in the early boot code? At least I don't see one. And kernel-proper kills it...
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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