Re: [PATCH v6 27/29] x86/boot/compressed: Remove, discard, or assert for unwanted sections

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Aug 21 2020 - 17:21:46 EST


On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 04:01:59PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:43:08PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > In preparation for warning on orphan sections, stop the linker from
> > generating the .eh_frame* sections, discard unwanted non-zero-sized
> > generated sections, and enforce other expected-to-be-zero-sized sections
> > (since discarding them might hide problems with them suddenly gaining
> > unexpected entries).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > .rel.dyn : {
> > - *(.rel.*)
> > + *(.rel.*) *(.rel_*)
> > }
> > ASSERT(SIZEOF(.rel.dyn) == 0, "Unexpected run-time relocations (.rel) detected!")
> >
> > .rela.dyn : {
> > - *(.rela.*)
> > + *(.rela.*) *(.rela_*)
> > }
> > ASSERT(SIZEOF(.rela.dyn) == 0, "Unexpected run-time relocations (.rela) detected!")
> > }
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
>
> When do you get .rela_?

i386 builds, IIRC. I can try to hunt that down if you want?

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Kees Cook