[PATCH] Add RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to generic DISCARDS

From: H.J. Lu
Date: Thu Jan 30 2020 - 17:45:57 EST


In x86 kernel, .exit.text and .exit.data sections are discarded at
runtime, not by linker. Add RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to generic DISCARDS
and define it in x86 kernel linker script to keep them.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index e3296aa028fe..7206e1ac23dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#define LOAD_OFFSET __START_KERNEL_map
#endif

+#define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT
#define EMITS_PT_NOTE
#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN 16

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index e00f41aa8ec4..6b943fb8c5fd 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -894,10 +894,16 @@
* section definitions so that such archs put those in earlier section
* definitions.
*/
+#ifdef RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT
+#define EXIT_DISCARDS
+#else
+#define EXIT_DISCARDS \
+ EXIT_TEXT \
+ EXIT_DATA
+#endif
#define DISCARDS \
/DISCARD/ : { \
- EXIT_TEXT \
- EXIT_DATA \
+ EXIT_DISCARDS \
EXIT_CALL \
*(.discard) \
*(.discard.*) \
--
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