2023-05-02 07:57:39

by Fangrui Song

Subject: [PATCH v3] arm64: lds: move .got section out of .text

Currently, the .got section is placed within the output section .text.
However, when .got is non-empty, the SHF_WRITE flag is set for .text
when linked by lld. GNU ld recognizes .text as a special section and
ignores the SHF_WRITE flag. By renaming .text, we can also get the
SHF_WRITE flag.

The kernel has performed R_AARCH64_RELATIVE resolving very early, and can
then assume that .got is read-only. Let's move .got to the vmlinux_rodata
pseudo-segment.

As Ard Biesheuvel notes:

"This matters to consumers of the vmlinux ELF representation of the
kernel image, such as syzkaller, which disregards writable PT_LOAD
segments when resolving code symbols. The kernel itself does not care
about this distinction, but given that the GOT contains data and not
code, it does not require executable permissions, and therefore does
not belong in .text to begin with."

Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>

--
Changes from v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/)
* move .got to the vmlinux_rodata pseudo-segment as suggested by Ard Biesheuvel

Changes from v2 (https://lore.kernel.org/r/all/[email protected]/)
* add Ard Biesheuvel's Reviewed-by tag and addition to the commit message.
---
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 19 +++++++++----------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b9202c2ee18e..3cd7e76cc562 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -181,10 +181,17 @@ SECTIONS
KPROBES_TEXT
HYPERVISOR_TEXT
*(.gnu.warning)
- . = ALIGN(16);
- *(.got) /* Global offset table */
}

+ . = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
+ _etext = .; /* End of text section */
+
+ /* everything from this point to __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
+ RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
+
+ HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTIONS
+
+ .got : { *(.got) }
/*
* Make sure that the .got.plt is either completely empty or it
* contains only the lazy dispatch entries.
@@ -193,14 +200,6 @@ SECTIONS
ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18,
"Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")

- . = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
- _etext = .; /* End of text section */
-
- /* everything from this point to __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
- RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
-
- HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTIONS
-
/* code sections that are never executed via the kernel mapping */
.rodata.text : {
TRAMP_TEXT
--
2.40.1.495.gc816e09b53d-goog

2023-05-02 12:16:01

by Will Deacon

Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: lds: move .got section out of .text

On Tue, 2 May 2023 07:41:05 +0000, Fangrui Song wrote:
> Currently, the .got section is placed within the output section .text.
> However, when .got is non-empty, the SHF_WRITE flag is set for .text
> when linked by lld. GNU ld recognizes .text as a special section and
> ignores the SHF_WRITE flag. By renaming .text, we can also get the
> SHF_WRITE flag.
>
> The kernel has performed R_AARCH64_RELATIVE resolving very early, and can
> then assume that .got is read-only. Let's move .got to the vmlinux_rodata
> pseudo-segment.
>
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/core), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: lds: move .got section out of .text
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/0fddb79bf283

Cheers,
--
Will

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