In a linker script, if once places a section in one or more segments using
":PHDR", then the linker will place all subsequent allocatable sections,
which do not specify ":PHDR", into the same segments. In order to have
the NOTES section in both PT_LOAD (":text") and PT_NOTE (":note"), both
segments are marked, and the only way to to undo this to keep subsequent
sections out of PT_NOTE is to mark the following section with just the
single desired PT_LOAD (":text").In preparation for having a common NOTES macro, perform the segment assignment use a dummy section (as done by other architectures). Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index e2feacf921a0..788e78978030 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ SECTIONS } :text = 0x9090 NOTES :text :note + .dummy : { *(.dummy) } :text - EXCEPTION_TABLE(16) :text = 0x9090 + EXCEPTION_TABLE(16) /* .text should occupy whole number of pages */ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); -- 2.17.1
