linux/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S, branch master

kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS

2026-02-26T18:50:19Z

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390 and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader failing to load the compressed kernel [1]. Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition. Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has never been necessary in those uses. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") Reported-by: Ed W Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1] Tested-by: Ed W # x86_64 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG

2020-09-01T07:50:35Z

The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections that need to be accounted for when linking with --orphan-handling=warn. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-5-keescook@chromium.org

parisc: Fix build of compressed kernel even with debug enabled

2019-08-01T12:17:53Z

With debug info enabled (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y) the resulting vmlinux may get that huge that we need to increase the start addresss for the decompression text section otherwise one will face a linker error. Reported-by: Sven Schnelle Tested-by: Sven Schnelle Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: Include compressed vmlinux file in vmlinuz boot kernel

2018-10-17T06:18:01Z

Change the parisc vmlinuz boot code to include and process the real compressed vmlinux.gz ELF file instead of a compressed memory dump. This brings parisc in sync on how it's done on x86_64. The benefit of this change is that, e.g. for debugging purposes, one can then extract the vmlinux file out of the vmlinuz which was booted which wasn't possible before. This can be archieved with the existing scripts/extract-vmlinux script, which just needs a small tweak to prefer to extract a compressed file before trying the existing given binary. The downside of this approach is that due to the extra round of decompression/ELF processing we need more physical memory installed to be able to boot a kernel. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference

2018-01-09T09:45:38Z

We are moving towards separate kernel and module function descriptor dereference callbacks. This patch enables it for parisc64. For pointers that belong to the kernel - Added __start_opd and __end_opd pointers, to track the kernel .opd section address range; - Added dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(). Now we will dereference only function pointers that are within [__start_opd, __end_opd); For pointers that belong to a module - Added dereference_module_function_descriptor() to handle module function descriptor dereference. Now we will dereference only pointers that are within [module->opd.start, module->opd.end). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109234830.5067-5-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com To: Tony Luck To: Fenghua Yu To: Helge Deller To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Paul Mackerras To: Michael Ellerman To: James Bottomley Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Tested-by: Helge Deller #parisc64 Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

parisc: Add core code for self-extracting kernel

2017-08-22T14:34:35Z

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller