Hi Kees, I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on tip/auto-latest] [also build test WARNING on next-20200902] [cannot apply to arm/for-next tip/x86/core v5.9-rc3] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Kees-Cook/Warn-on-orphan-section... base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git d444af79439c392efe256742fb801a14f0793a71 config: x86_64-rhel (attached as .config) compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-15) 9.3.0 reproduce (this is a W=1 build): # save the attached .config to linux build tree make W=1 ARCH=x86_64 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp(a)intel.com&gt; All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>): ld: warning: orphan section `.gnu.version_d' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.gnu.version_d' ld: warning: orphan section `.gnu.version' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.gnu.version' ld: warning: orphan section `.gnu.version_r' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.gnu.version_r' ld: warning: orphan section `.dynsym' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.dynsym' ld: warning: orphan section `.dynstr' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.dynstr' ld: warning: orphan section `.dynamic' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.dynamic' ld: warning: orphan section `.hash' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.hash' ld: warning: orphan section `.gnu.hash' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.gnu.hash' ld: warning: orphan section `.plt' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.plt' ld: warning: orphan section `.dynbss' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.dynbss' ld: warning: orphan section `.plt.got' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.plt.got' ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame' ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/error.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/error.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/cpuflags.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/cpuflags.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/early_serial_console.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/early_serial_console.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/file.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/file.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/gop.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/gop.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-cmdline.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-cmdline.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-ctype.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-ctype.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/pci.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/pci.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' >> ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/skip_spaces.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/skip_spaces.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/tpm.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/tpm.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' ld: warning: orphan section `.comment' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/vsprintf.stub.o' being placed in section `.comment' ld: warning: orphan section `.note.GNU-stack' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/vsprintf.stub.o' being placed in section `.note.GNU-stack' --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation 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