On 2020-08-03, 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built Linux wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:18 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In preparation for adding --orphan-handling=warn, explicitly keep the
.ARM.attributes section by expanding the existing ELF_DETAILS macro into
ARM_DETAILS.
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOdk-racgq5pxsoGS6Vtifbtrk5fmkmnoLxrQMaOvV0nPWw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 ++++
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S | 2 +-
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h
index a08f4301b718..c4af5182ab48 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@
ARM_MMU_DISCARD(*(__ex_table)) \
COMMON_DISCARDS
+#define ARM_DETAILS \
+ ELF_DETAILS \
+ .ARM.attributes 0 : { *(.ARM.attributes) }
I had to look up what the `0` meant:
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Attributes.html#Output-Section-Attributes
mentions it's an "address" and
https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/ld-2.9.1/html_chapter/ld_3.html#SEC21
mentions it as "start" (an address).
Unless we need those, can we drop them? (Sorry for the resulting churn
that would cause). I think the NO_LOAD stuff makes more sense, but
I'm curious if the kernel checks for that.
NOLOAD means SHT_NOBITS (usually SHF_ALLOC). .ARM.attributes is a
non-SHF_ALLOC section.
An explicit 0 (output section address) is good - GNU ld's internal
linker scripts (ld --verbose output) use 0 for such non-SHF_ALLOC sections.
Without the 0, the section may get a non-zero address, which is not
wrong - but probably does not look well. See https://reviews.llvm.org/D85867 for details.
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
+
#define ARM_STUBS_TEXT \
*(.gnu.warning) \
*(.glue_7) \
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
index 904c31fa20ed..57fcbf55f913 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ SECTIONS
_end = .;
STABS_DEBUG
- ELF_DETAILS
+ ARM_DETAILS
}
/*
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index bb950c896a67..1d3d3b599635 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ SECTIONS
_end = .;
STABS_DEBUG
- ELF_DETAILS
+ ARM_DETAILS
}
#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
--
2.25.1
