Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:12:24 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: mm: DEBUG_RODATA makes no sense with XIP_KERNEL | From | Kees Cook <> |
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: >> When CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA is set, we get a link error: >> >> arch/arm/mm/built-in.o:(.data+0x4bc): undefined reference to `__start_rodata_section_aligned' >> >> However, this combination is useless, as XIP_KERNEL implies that all the >> RODATA is already marked readonly, so both CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and >> CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA (which depends on the other) are not >> needed with XIP_KERNEL, and this patches enforces that using a Kconfig >> dependency. >> >> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> >> Fixes: 25362dc496ed ("ARM: 8501/1: mm: flip priority of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA") > > For this and the 2/2 patch: > > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > > I've sent follow-up to clean up the XIP linker script too, if you want > to take that as the 3rd patch in this series of fixes.
Arnd, when you send your 2 patches to the tracker, can you also send mine (so the ordering is correct)?
Thanks!
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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