Re: [tip: x86/boot] x86/boot/compressed: Remove .eh_frame section from bzImage

[Arvind Sankar]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 06:16:18PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:41:29AM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > Hi Boris, apologies for the confusion and unnecessary work I've created,
> > but I think the preference is to merge the 2-patch series I posted
> > yesterday [1] instead of this.
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200223193715.83729-1-nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> What guarantees this would work and we won't hit some corner case or
> toolchain configuration this hasn't been tested on?
> 
> If that happens, I need to have a state to revert back to, i.e., this
> patch, discarding .eh_frame explicitly.
> 
> So I'll pick up [1] too, but give people a couple of days - a chance to
> complain about. :)
> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix ImendÃrffer, HRB 36809, AG NÃrnberg

Ok, note that the 2-patch series assumed that it would replace this one,
so it doesn't contain a revert of discarding .eh_frame explicitly for
the compressed kernel.

The first patch of that series at least should be safe enough, it will
stop generating .eh_frame sections in most cases, and shouldn't make any
edge cases worse than before. The second one might be a regression if we
do have some case that still creates them though.