Thread (68 messages) 68 messages, 9 authors, 2020-10-29

Re: [PATCH v6 13/29] arm64/build: Assert for unwanted sections

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2020-10-26 12:29:38
Also in: linux-arch, linux-efi, linux-renesas-soc, lkml

Hi Kees,

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 9:56 PM Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:
In preparation for warning on orphan sections, discard
unwanted non-zero-sized generated sections, and enforce other
expected-to-be-zero-sized sections (since discarding them might hide
problems with them suddenly gaining unexpected entries).

Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
This is now commit be2881824ae9eb92 ("arm64/build: Assert for unwanted
sections") in v5.10-rc1, and is causing the following error with
renesas_defconfig[1]:

    aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from
`kernel/bpf/core.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame'
    aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!
    aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: Unexpected run-time procedure linkages detected!

I cannot reproduce this with the standard arm64 defconfig.

I bisected the error to the aforementioned commit, but understand this
is not the real reason.  If I revert this commit, I still get:

    aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.got.plt' from
`arch/arm64/kernel/head.o' being placed in section `.got.plt'
    aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.plt' from
`arch/arm64/kernel/head.o' being placed in section `.plt'
    aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.rel.ro' from
`arch/arm64/kernel/head.o' being placed in section `.data.rel.ro'
    aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from
`kernel/bpf/core.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame'

I.e. including the ".eh_frame" warning. I have tried bisecting that
warning (i.e. with be2881824ae9eb92 reverted), but that leads me to
commit b3e5d80d0c48c0cc ("arm64/build: Warn on orphan section
placement"), which is another red herring.

Note that even on plain be2881824ae9eb92, I get:

    aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!
    aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: Unexpected run-time procedure linkages detected!

The parent commit obviously doesn't show that (but probably still has
the problem).

Do you have a clue!

Thanks!
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -121,6 +121,14 @@ SECTIONS
                *(.got)                 /* Global offset table          */
        }

+       /*
+        * Make sure that the .got.plt is either completely empty or it
+        * contains only the lazy dispatch entries.
+        */
+       .got.plt : { *(.got.plt) }
+       ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18,
+              "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
+
        . = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
        _etext = .;                     /* End of text section */
@@ -243,6 +251,18 @@ SECTIONS
        ELF_DETAILS

        HEAD_SYMBOLS
+
+       /*
+        * Sections that should stay zero sized, which is safer to
+        * explicitly check instead of blindly discarding.
+        */
+       .plt : {
+               *(.plt) *(.plt.*) *(.iplt) *(.igot)
+       }
+       ASSERT(SIZEOF(.plt) == 0, "Unexpected run-time procedure linkages detected!")
+
+       .data.rel.ro : { *(.data.rel.ro) }
+       ASSERT(SIZEOF(.data.rel.ro) == 0, "Unexpected RELRO detected!")
 }

 #include "image-vars.h"
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-devel.git/log/?h=topic/renesas-defconfig

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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