kbuild: lto: Merge module sections if and only if CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is enabled
commit 6a3193cd upstream. Merge module sections only when using Clang LTO. With ld.bfd, merging sections does not appear to update the symbol tables for the module, e.g. 'readelf -s' shows the value that a symbol would have had, if sections were not merged. ld.lld does not show this problem. The stale symbol table breaks gdb's function disassembler, and presumably other things, e.g. gdb -batch -ex "file arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko" -ex "disassemble kvm_init" reads the wrong bytes and dumps garbage. Fixes: dd277622 ("kbuild: lto: merge module sections") Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322234438.502582-1-seanjc@google.com Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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