| Date | Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:10:04 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] x86/boot/compressed: Move .got.plt entries out of the .got section |
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 05:51:00PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 17:50, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 08:48:05AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:09:22AM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote: > > > > > > This is also being done on arm64, and the section was specified slightly > > > differently (with INFO) which maybe should be done here too? > > > > I was actually just about to email you to ask what that INFO is for :) > > What does it do? > > > > It makes the section non-allocatable, so it is dropped from the final image
i.e. takes no disk space, but the ASSERT can still be done.
-- Kees Cook
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