On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 9:59 AM Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On a kernel without CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX, running EXEC_RODATA
> test leads to "Illegal instruction" failure.
>
> Looking at the content of rodata_objcopy.o, we see that the
> function content zeroes only:
>
> Disassembly of section .rodata:
>
> 0000000000000000 <.lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing>:
> 0: 00 00 00 00 .long 0x0
>
> Add the contents flag in order to keep the content of the section
> while renaming it.
>
> Disassembly of section .rodata:
>
> 0000000000000000 <.lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing>:
> 0: 4e 80 00 20 blr
>
> Fixes: e9e08a07385e ("lkdtm: support llvm-objcopy")
Thanks for the patch; sorry I broke this.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile
> index aa12097668d3..e2984ce51fe4 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_rodata.o += $(CC_FLAGS_LTO)
>
> OBJCOPYFLAGS :=
> OBJCOPYFLAGS_rodata_objcopy.o := \
> - --rename-section .noinstr.text=.rodata,alloc,readonly,load
> + --rename-section .noinstr.text=.rodata,alloc,readonly,load,contents
> targets += rodata.o rodata_objcopy.o
> $(obj)/rodata_objcopy.o: $(obj)/rodata.o FORCE
> $(call if_changed,objcopy)
> --
> 2.31.1
>
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
