Re: [PATCH] lkdtm: don't move ctors to .rodata

[Sasha Levin]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 06:16:29PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:53:10AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Sorry for the confusion. Can commit 655389666643 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Create
> > section for protection against instrumentation") and commit 3f618ab33234
> > ("lkdtm: don't move ctors to .rodata") be backported to 5.4.y and only
> > commit 3f618ab3323407ee4c6a6734a37eb6e9663ebfb9 be backported to 5.10.y?
>
> 655389666643 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against
> instrumentation") does not apply cleanly to 5.4.y, so can you provide a
> working backport for both of those patches to 5.4.y that you have
> tested?

It was due to a backport of eff8728fe698 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Add PGO and
AutoFDO input sections"). Taking 655389666643 and 3f618ab33234 converged
us back with Linus's tree as eff8728fe698 worked around not having those
in 5.4.

I've fixed it up and queued both of those patches.

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Thanks,
Sasha