kernel/linux.git/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, branch v5.10.258

vmlinux.lds: Ensure that const vars with relocations are mapped R/O

2025-03-13T11:47:34+00:00

commit 68f3ea7ee199ef77551e090dfef5a49046ea8443 upstream. In the kernel, there are architectures (x86, arm64) that perform boot-time relocation (for KASLR) without relying on PIE codegen. In this case, all const global objects are emitted into .rodata, including const objects with fields that will be fixed up by the boot-time relocation code. This implies that .rodata (and .text in some cases) need to be writable at boot, but they will usually be mapped read-only as soon as the boot completes. When using PIE codegen, the compiler will emit const global objects into .data.rel.ro rather than .rodata if the object contains fields that need such fixups at boot-time. This permits the linker to annotate such regions as requiring read-write access only at load time, but not at execution time (in user space), while keeping .rodata truly const (in user space, this is important for reducing the CoW footprint of dynamic executables). This distinction does not matter for the kernel, but it does imply that const data will end up in writable memory if the .data.rel.ro sections are not treated in a special way, as they will end up in the writable .data segment by default. So emit .data.rel.ro into the .rodata segment. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250221135704.431269-5-ardb+git@google.com Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv

2023-03-17T07:45:16+00:00

commit 99cb0d917ffa1ab628bb67364ca9b162c07699b1 upstream. Dennis Gilmore reports that the BuildID is missing in the arm64 vmlinux since commit 994b7ac1697b ("arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o"). The issue is that the type of .notes section, which contains the BuildID, changed from NOTES to PROGBITS. Ard Biesheuvel figured out that whichever object gets linked first gets to decide the type of a section. The PROGBITS type is the result of the compiler emitting .note.GNU-stack as PROGBITS rather than NOTE. While Ard provided a fix for arm64, I want to fix this globally because the same issue is happening on riscv since commit 2348e6bf4421 ("riscv: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o"). This problem will happen in general for other architectures if they start to drop unneeded entries from scripts/head-object-list.txt. Discard .note.GNU-stack in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAABkxwuQoz1CTbyb57n0ZX65eSYiTonFCU8-LCQc=74D=xE=rA@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 994b7ac1697b ("arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o") Fixes: 2348e6bf4421 ("riscv: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o") Reported-by: Dennis Gilmore Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt [Tom: stable backport 5.15.y, 5.10.y, 5.4.y] Though the above "Fixes:" commits are not in this kernel, the conditions which lead to a missing Build ID in arm64 vmlinux are similar. Evidence points to these conditions: 1. ld version > 2.36 (exact binutils commit documented in a494398bde27) 2. first object which gets linked (head.o) has a PROGBITS .note.GNU-stack segment These conditions can be observed when: - 5.15.60+ OR 5.10.136+ OR 5.4.210+ - AND ld version > 2.36 - AND arch=arm64 - AND CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y There are notable differences in the vmlinux elf files produced before(bad) and after(good) applying this series. Good: p_type:PT_NOTE segment exists. Bad: p_type:PT_NOTE segment is missing. Good: sh_name_str:.notes section has sh_type:SHT_NOTE Bad: sh_name_str:.notes section has sh_type:SHT_PROGBITS `readelf -n` (as of v2.40) searches for Build Id by processing only the very first note in sh_type:SHT_NOTE sections. This was previously bisected to the stable backport of 0d362be5b142. Follow-up experiments were discussed here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221221235413.xaisboqmr7dkqwn6@oracle.com/ which strongly hints at condition 2. Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vmlinux.lds.h: Fix placement of '.data..decrypted' section

2022-11-16T08:57:16+00:00

commit 000f8870a47bdc36730357883b6aef42bced91ee upstream. Commit d4c639990036 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid orphan section with !SMP") fixed an orphan section warning by adding the '.data..decrypted' section to the linker script under the PERCPU_DECRYPTED_SECTION define but that placement introduced a panic with !SMP, as the percpu sections are not instantiated with that configuration so attempting to access variables defined with DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED() will result in a page fault. Move the '.data..decrypted' section to the DATA_MAIN define so that the variables in it are properly instantiated at boot time with CONFIG_SMP=n. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d4c639990036 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid orphan section with !SMP") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cbbd3548-880c-d2ca-1b67-5bb93b291d5f@huawei.com/ Debugged-by: Ard Biesheuvel Reported-by: Zhao Wenhui Tested-by: xiafukun Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221108174934.3384275-1-nathan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vmlinux.lds.h: Handle clang's module.{c,d}tor sections

2021-08-18T06:59:18+00:00

commit 848378812e40152abe9b9baf58ce2004f76fb988 upstream. A recent change in LLVM causes module_{c,d}tor sections to appear when CONFIG_K{A,C}SAN are enabled, which results in orphan section warnings because these are not handled anywhere: ld.lld: warning: arch/x86/pci/built-in.a(legacy.o):(.text.asan.module_ctor) is being placed in '.text.asan.module_ctor' ld.lld: warning: arch/x86/pci/built-in.a(legacy.o):(.text.asan.module_dtor) is being placed in '.text.asan.module_dtor' ld.lld: warning: arch/x86/pci/built-in.a(legacy.o):(.text.tsan.module_ctor) is being placed in '.text.tsan.module_ctor' Fangrui explains: "the function asan.module_ctor has the SHF_GNU_RETAIN flag, so it is in a separate section even with -fno-function-sections (default)". Place them in the TEXT_TEXT section so that these technologies continue to work with the newer compiler versions. All of the KASAN and KCSAN KUnit tests continue to pass after this change. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1432 Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/7b789562244ee941b7bf2cefeb3fc08a59a01865 Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song Acked-by: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210731023107.1932981-1-nathan@kernel.org [nc: Resolve conflict due to lack of cf68fffb66d60] Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid orphan section with !SMP

2021-06-16T10:01:45+00:00

commit d4c6399900364facd84c9e35ce1540b6046c345f upstream. With x86_64_defconfig and the following configs, there is an orphan section warning: CONFIG_SMP=n CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST=y CONFIG_KVM=y CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y ld: warning: orphan section `.data..decrypted' from `arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.o' being placed in section `.data..decrypted' ld: warning: orphan section `.data..decrypted' from `arch/x86/kernel/kvm.o' being placed in section `.data..decrypted' These sections are created with DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED, which ultimately turns into __PCPU_ATTRS, which in turn has a section attribute with a value of PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION + the section name. When CONFIG_SMP is not set, the base section is .data and that is not currently handled in any linker script. Add .data..decrypted to PERCPU_DECRYPTED_SECTION, which is included in PERCPU_INPUT -> PERCPU_SECTION, which is include in the x86 linker script when either CONFIG_X86_64 or CONFIG_SMP is unset, taking care of the warning. Fixes: ac26963a1175 ("percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED") Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1360 Reported-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers # build Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506001410.1026691-1-nathan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

static_call: Allow module use without exposing static_call_key

2021-03-30T12:31:53+00:00

[ Upstream commit 73f44fe19d359635a607e8e8daa0da4001c1cfc2 ] When exporting static_call_key; with EXPORT_STATIC_CALL*(), the module can use static_call_update() to change the function called. This is not desirable in general. Not exporting static_call_key however also disallows usage of static_call(), since objtool needs the key to construct the static_call_site. Solve this by allowing objtool to create the static_call_site using the trampoline address when it builds a module and cannot find the static_call_key symbol. The module loader will then try and map the trampole back to a key before it constructs the normal sites list. Doing this requires a trampoline -> key associsation, so add another magic section that keeps those. Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210127231837.ifddpn7rhwdaepiu@treble Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vmlinux.lds.h: Define SANTIZER_DISCARDS with CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y

2021-03-04T10:37:19+00:00

commit f5b6a74d9c08b19740ca056876bf6584acdba582 upstream. clang produces .eh_frame sections when CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL is enabled, even when -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables is in KBUILD_CFLAGS: $ make CC=clang vmlinux ... ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame' ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from `init/version.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame' ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from `init/do_mounts.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame' ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from `init/do_mounts_initrd.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame' ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from `init/initramfs.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame' ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from `init/calibrate.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame' ld: warning: orphan section `.eh_frame' from `init/init_task.o' being placed in section `.eh_frame' ... $ rg "GCOV_KERNEL|GCOV_PROFILE_ALL" .config CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y This was already handled for a couple of other options in commit d812db78288d ("vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid KASAN and KCSAN's unwanted sections") and there is an open LLVM bug for this issue. Take advantage of that section for this config as well so that there are no more orphan warnings. Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46478 Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1069 Reported-by: kernel test robot Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Fixes: d812db78288d ("vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid KASAN and KCSAN's unwanted sections") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130004650.2682422-1-nathan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vmlinux.lds.h: add DWARF v5 sections

2021-03-04T10:37:17+00:00

commit 3c4fa46b30c551b1df2fb1574a684f68bc22067c upstream. We expect toolchains to produce these new debug info sections as part of DWARF v5. Add explicit placements to prevent the linker warnings from --orphan-section=warn. Compilers may produce such sections with explicit -gdwarf-5, or based on the implicit default version of DWARF when -g is used via DEBUG_INFO. This implicit default changes over time, and has changed to DWARF v5 with GCC 11. .debug_sup was mentioned in review, but without compilers producing it today, let's wait to add it until it becomes necessary. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922707 Reported-by: Chris Murphy Suggested-by: Fangrui Song Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Mark Wielaard Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware_loader: align .builtin_fw to 8

2021-02-17T10:02:27+00:00

[ Upstream commit 793f49a87aae24e5bcf92ad98d764153fc936570 ] arm64 references the start address of .builtin_fw (__start_builtin_fw) with a pair of R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21/R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocations. The compiler is allowed to emit the R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation because struct builtin_fw in include/linux/firmware.h is 8-byte aligned. The R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation requires the address to be a multiple of 8, which may not be the case if .builtin_fw is empty. Unconditionally align .builtin_fw to fix the linker error. 32-bit architectures could use ALIGN(4) but that would add unnecessary complexity, so just use ALIGN(8). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201208054646.2913063-1-maskray@google.com Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1204 Fixes: 5658c76 ("firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image") Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song Reported-by: kernel test robot Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers Tested-by: Douglas Anderson Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vmlinux.lds.h: Keep .ctors.* with .ctors

2020-10-27T18:13:41+00:00

Under some circumstances, the compiler generates .ctors.* sections. This is seen doing a cross compile of x86_64 from a powerpc64el host: x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.ctors.65435' from `kernel/trace/trace_clock.o' being placed in section `.ctors.65435' x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.ctors.65435' from `kernel/trace/ftrace.o' being placed in section `.ctors.65435' x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.ctors.65435' from `kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o' being placed in section `.ctors.65435' Include these orphans along with the regular .ctors section. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell Fixes: 83109d5d5fba ("x86/build: Warn on orphan section placement") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201005025720.2599682-1-keescook@chromium.org