Re: [PATCH v5 mips-next 0/9] MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S sections fixes & cleanup

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:44 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer
<tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 08:57:25PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:53:39 -0800
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:53:50AM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > >> This series hunts the problems discovered after manual enabling of
> > >> ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN. Notably:
> > >>  - adds the missing PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA() section affecting VDSO
> > >>    placement (marked for stable);
> > >>  - stops blind catching of orphan text sections with .text.*
> > >>    directive;
> > >>  - properly stops .eh_frame section generation.
> > >>
> > >> Compile and runtime tested on MIPS32R2 CPS board with no issues
> > >> using two different toolkits:
> > >>  - Binutils 2.35.1, GCC 10.2.1 (with Alpine patches);
> > >>  - LLVM stack: 11.0.0 and from latest Git snapshot.
> > >>
> > >> Since v4 [3]:
> > >>  - new: drop redundant .text.cps-vec creation and blind inclusion
> > >>    of orphan text sections via .text.* directive in vmlinux.lds.S;
> > >>  - don't assert SIZEOF(.rel.dyn) as it's reported that it may be not
> > >>    empty on certain machines and compilers (Thomas);
> > >>  - align GOT table like it's done for ARM64;
> > >>  - new: catch UBSAN's "unnamed data" sections in generic definitions
> > >>    when building with LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION;
> > >>  - collect Reviewed-bys (Kees, Nathan).
> > >
> > > Looks good; which tree will this land through?
> >
> > linux-mips/mips-next I guess, since 7 of 9 patches are related only
> > to this architecture.
> > This might need Arnd's Acked-bys or Reviewed-by for the two that
> > refer include/asm-generic, let's see what Thomas think.
>
> Looks good from my side and I have it already sitting in branch for
> submission.
>
> Arnd, are you ok with the changes in include/asm-generic ?

Yes, I'm never quite sure about what to make of linker script changes,
but I trust Kees on the review. For merging it through your tree:

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>