Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/boot: Warn on orphan section placement

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 03:06:28PM -0700, Fangrui Song wrote:
> LLD may report warnings for 3 synthetic sections if they are orphans:
> 
> ld.lld: warning: <internal>:(.symtab) is being placed in '.symtab'
> ld.lld: warning: <internal>:(.shstrtab) is being placed in '.shstrtab'
> ld.lld: warning: <internal>:(.strtab) is being placed in '.strtab'
> 
> Are they described?

Perhaps:

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index db600ef218d7..57e9c142e401 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -792,6 +792,9 @@
 		.stab.exclstr 0 : { *(.stab.exclstr) }			\
 		.stab.index 0 : { *(.stab.index) }			\
 		.stab.indexstr 0 : { *(.stab.indexstr) }		\
+		.symtab 0 : { *(.symtab) }				\
+		.strtab 0 : { *(.strtab) }				\
+		.shstrtab 0 : { *(.shstrtab) }				\
 		.comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG

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Kees Cook