linux.git/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch v6.18.21

kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS

2026-03-12T11:09:44+00:00

commit 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 upstream.

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W  # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr

2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00

Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As
such, add a little validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren 
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG

2020-09-01T07:50:35+00:00

The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a
new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections
that need to be accounted for when linking with --orphan-handling=warn.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-5-keescook@chromium.org

alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment

2019-11-04T16:57:56+00:00

Since the EXCEPTION_TABLE is read-only, collapse it into RO_DATA.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-18-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RW_DATA_SECTION with RW_DATA

2019-11-04T14:57:41+00:00

Rename RW_DATA_SECTION to RW_DATA. (Calling this a "section" is a lie,
since it's multiple sections and section flags cannot be applied to
the macro.)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven  # m68k
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-14-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RODATA with RO_DATA

2019-11-04T14:53:15+00:00

There's no reason to keep the RODATA macro: replace the callers with
the expected RO_DATA macro.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-12-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Move NOTES into RO_DATA

2019-11-04T14:34:41+00:00

The .notes section should be non-executable read-only data. As such,
move it to the RO_DATA macro instead of being per-architecture defined.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-11-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Move Program Header restoration into NOTES macro

2019-11-04T14:34:39+00:00

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, make the Program Header
assignment restoration be part of the NOTES macro itself.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-10-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Provide EMIT_PT_NOTE to indicate export of .notes

2019-11-04T14:34:38+00:00

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, provide a mechanism for
architectures that want to emit a PT_NOTE Program Header to do so.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-9-keescook@chromium.org

alpha: Rename PT_LOAD identifier "kernel" to "text"

2019-11-04T14:34:17+00:00

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, rename the linker script
internal identifier for the PT_LOAD Program Header from "kernel" to
"text" to match other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-5-keescook@chromium.org