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authorXin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>2022-10-25 00:30:23 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2022-11-01 10:04:52 -0700
commite1789d7c752ed001cf1a4bbbd624f70a7dd3c6db (patch)
treedac3a0cb3895d47ab1743980cfbd480f8c467ea2 /Makefile
parent5a17f040fa332e71a45ca9ff02d6979d9176a423 (diff)
downloadlinux-e1789d7c752ed001cf1a4bbbd624f70a7dd3c6db.tar.bz2
kbuild: upgrade the orphan section warning to an error if CONFIG_WERROR is set
Andrew Cooper suggested upgrading the orphan section warning to a hard link error. However Nathan Chancellor said outright turning the warning into an error with no escape hatch might be too aggressive, as we have had these warnings triggered by new compiler generated sections, and suggested turning orphan sections into an error only if CONFIG_WERROR is set. Kees Cook echoed and emphasized that the mandate from Linus is that we should avoid breaking builds. It wrecks bisection, it causes problems across compiler versions, etc. Thus upgrade the orphan section warning to a hard link error only if CONFIG_WERROR is set. Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025073023.16137-2-xin3.li@intel.com
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f41ec8c8426b..9a496bef3170 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ endif
# We never want expected sections to be placed heuristically by the
# linker. All sections should be explicitly named in the linker script.
ifdef CONFIG_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --orphan-handling=warn
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --orphan-handling=$(CONFIG_LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL)
endif
# Align the bit size of userspace programs with the kernel