Hi,

On 6/15/21 10:41 AM, Dave Martin wrote:

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 04:33:41PM +0100, Mark Brown via Libc-alpha wrote:

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 04:22:06PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:28:12AM -0500, Jeremy Linton via Libc-alpha wrote:

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Thus, I expect that with his patch applied to 5.13 the service will fail to
start regardless of the state of MDWE, but it seems to continue starting
when I set MDWE=yes. Same behavior with v1 FWTW.

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If the failure we're trying to detect is that BTI is undesirably left
off for the main executable, surely replacing BTIs with NOPs will make
no differenece?  The behaviour with PROT_BTI clear is strictly more
permissive than with PROT_BTI set, so I'm not sure we can test the
behaviour this way.

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Maybe I'm missing sometihng / confused myself somewhere.

The issue this patch series is intended to address is that BTI gets
left off since the dynamic linker is unable to enable PROT_BTI on the
main executable.  We're looking to see that we end up with the stricter
permissions checking of BTI, with the issue present landing pads
replaced by NOPs will not fault but once the issue is addressed they
should start faulting.

Ah, right -- I got the test backwards in my head.  Yes, that sounds
reasonable.

Yes, the good thing about doing both the success and failure cases 
rather than just checking smaps is that one can be assured the emulation 
env and all the pieces are working correctly, not just the mappings,


Anyway, it looks like v3 is behaving as expected, I'm going to let it 
run a few more tests and presumably post a tested-by on the set tomorrow.


Thanks,

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Looking at /proc/<pid>/maps after the process starts up may be a more
reliable approach, so see what the actual prot value is on the main
executable's text pages.

smaps rather than maps but yes, executable pages show up as "ex" and BTI
adds a "bt" tag in VmFlags.

Fumbled that -- yes, I meant smaps!

Ignore me...

Cheers
---Dave

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