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Users of GNU ld (BFD) from binutils 2.39+ will observe multiple
instances of a new warning when linking kernels in the form:

  ld: warning: arch/x86/boot/pmjump.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack
  ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker
  ld: warning: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions

Generally, we would like to avoid the stack being executable.  Because
there could be a need for the stack to be executable, assembler sources
have to opt-in to this security feature via explicit creation of the
.note.GNU-stack feature (which compilers create by default) or command
line flag --noexecstack.  Or we can simply tell the linker the
production of such sections is irrelevant and to link the stack as
--noexecstack.

LLVM's LLD linker defaults to -z noexecstack, so this flag isn't
strictly necessary when linking with LLD, only BFD, but it doesn't hurt
to be explicit here for all linkers IMO.  --no-warn-rwx-segments is
currently BFD specific and only available in the current latest release,
so it's wrapped in an ld-option check.

While the kernel makes extensive usage of ELF sections, it doesn't use
permissions from ELF segments.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/3af4127a-f453-4cf7-f133-a181cce06f73@kernel.dk/
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=ba951afb99912da01a6e8434126b8fac7aa75107
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57009
Reported-and-tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-08-10 18:30:09 -07:00
arch x86: link vdso and boot with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments 2022-08-10 18:30:09 -07:00
block block: convert to advancing variants of iov_iter_get_pages{,_alloc}() 2022-08-08 22:37:22 -04:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
crypto crypto: blake2b: effectively disable frame size warning 2022-08-10 17:59:11 -07:00
Documentation rpmsg fixes for v5.20 2022-08-10 11:28:14 -07:00
drivers hwmon fixes for v6.0-rc1 2022-08-10 11:30:16 -07:00
fs NFS client updates for Linux 5.20 2022-08-10 14:04:32 -07:00
include NFS client updates for Linux 5.20 2022-08-10 14:04:32 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
io_uring iov_iter work, part 1 - isolated cleanups and optimizations. 2022-08-03 13:50:22 -07:00
ipc Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
kernel cxl for 6.0 2022-08-10 11:07:26 -07:00
lib iov_iter stuff, part 2, rebased 2022-08-08 20:04:35 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm - hugetlb_vmemmap cleanups from Muchun Song 2022-08-10 11:18:00 -07:00
net NFS client updates for Linux 5.20 2022-08-10 14:04:32 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 5.20 / 6.0 2022-08-05 09:41:12 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
security + Features 2022-08-10 10:53:22 -07:00
sound sound updates for 6.0-rc1 2022-08-06 10:19:51 -07:00
tools cxl for 6.0 2022-08-10 11:07:26 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt Merge remote-tracking branch 'kvm/next' into kvm-next-5.20 2022-08-01 03:21:00 -04:00
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.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Pin control bulk changes for v6.0: 2022-08-10 11:01:44 -07:00
Makefile Makefile: link with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments 2022-08-10 18:29:34 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.