From: Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 388708028e6937f3fc5fc19aeeb847f8970f489c ] The arm64 assembler in binutils 2.32 and above generates a program property note in a note section, .note.gnu.property, to encode used x86 ISAs and features. But the kernel linker script only contains a single NOTE segment: PHDRS { text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5) FILEHDR PHDRS; /* PF_R|PF_X */ dynamic PT_DYNAMIC FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */ note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */ } The NOTE segment generated by the vDSO linker script is aligned to 4 bytes. But the .note.gnu.property section must be aligned to 8 bytes on arm64. $ readelf -n vdso64.so Displaying notes found in: .note Owner Data size Description Linux 0x00000004 Unknown note type: (0x00000000) description data: 06 00 00 00 readelf: Warning: note with invalid namesz and/or descsz found at offset 0x20 readelf: Warning: type: 0x78, namesize: 0x00000100, descsize: 0x756e694c, alignment: 8 Since the note.gnu.property section in the vDSO is not checked by the dynamic linker, discard the .note.gnu.property sections in the vDSO. Similar to commit 4caffe6a28d31 ("x86/vdso: Discard .note.gnu.property sections in vDSO"), but for arm64. Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210423205159.830854-1-morbo@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S index 7ad2d3a0cd48..815df253f96e 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S @@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ SECTIONS .gnu.version_d : { *(.gnu.version_d) } .gnu.version_r : { *(.gnu.version_r) } + /* + * Discard .note.gnu.property sections which are unused and have + * different alignment requirement from vDSO note sections. + */ + /DISCARD/ : { + *(.note.GNU-stack .note.gnu.property) + } .note : { *(.note.*) } :text :note . = ALIGN(16); @@ -48,7 +55,6 @@ SECTIONS PROVIDE(end = .); /DISCARD/ : { - *(.note.GNU-stack) *(.data .data.* .gnu.linkonce.d.* .sdata*) *(.bss .sbss .dynbss .dynsbss) } -- 2.30.2