Re: [PATCH v2 13/28] kbuild: lto: merge module sections

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:30:38PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> LLD always splits sections with LTO, which increases module sizes. This
> change adds a linker script that merges the split sections in the final
> module.
> 
> Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>

We'll likely need to come back around to this for FGKASLR (to keep the
.text.* sections separated), but that's no different than the existing
concerns for FGKASLR on the main kernel.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Kees Cook