[PATCH] x86/vmlinux: Fix linker fill bytes for ld.lld

From: Song Liu
Date: Wed Sep 06 2023 - 13:52:46 EST


With ":text =0xcccc", ld.lld fills unused text area with 0xcccc0000.
Example objdump -D output:

ffffffff82b04203: 00 00 add %al,(%rax)
ffffffff82b04205: cc int3
ffffffff82b04206: cc int3
ffffffff82b04207: 00 00 add %al,(%rax)
ffffffff82b04209: cc int3
ffffffff82b0420a: cc int3

Replace it with ":text =0xcccccccc", so we get the following instead:

ffffffff82b04203: cc int3
ffffffff82b04204: cc int3
ffffffff82b04205: cc int3
ffffffff82b04206: cc int3
ffffffff82b04207: cc int3
ffffffff82b04208: cc int3

gcc/ld doesn't seem to have the same issue. The generated code stays the
same for gcc/ld.

Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 83d41c2601d7..41d56fb9bf92 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ SECTIONS
ALIGN_ENTRY_TEXT_END
*(.gnu.warning)

- } :text =0xcccc
+ } :text =0xcccccccc

/* End of text section, which should occupy whole number of pages */
_etext = .;
--
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