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Date:   Thu, 6 Feb 2020 04:06:17 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/11] x86: Add support for finer grained KASLR
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 11:38:30AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 02:39:47PM -0800, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > +static long __start___ex_table_addr;
> > +static long __stop___ex_table_addr;
> > +static long _stext;
> > +static long _etext;
> > +static long _sinittext;
> > +static long _einittext;
> 
> Should you not also adjust __jump_table, __mcount_loc,
> __kprobe_blacklist and possibly others that include text addresses?

These don't appear to be sorted at build time. AIUI, the problem with
ex_table and kallsyms is that they're preprocessed at build time and
opaque to the linker's relocation generation.

For example, looking at __jump_table, it gets sorted at runtime:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/jump_label.c#n474

As you're likely aware, we have a number of "special"
sections like this, currently collected manually, see *_TEXT:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S#n128

I think we can actually add (most of) these to fg-kaslr's awareness (at
which point their order will be shuffled respective to other sections,
but with their content order unchanged), but it'll require a bit of
linker work. I'll mention this series's dependency on the linker's
orphaned section handling in another thread...

-- 
Kees Cook