Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arch/x86: Use -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to suppress .eh_frame sections

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>, Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arch/x86: Use -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to suppress .eh_frame sections
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:10:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202002242009.43E8DFD58@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200224232129.597160-2-nivedita@alum.mit.edu>

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 06:21:28PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> While discussing a patch to discard .eh_frame from the compressed
> vmlinux using the linker script, Fangrui Song pointed out [1] that these
> sections shouldn't exist in the first place because arch/x86/Makefile
> uses -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables.
> 
> It turns out this is because the Makefiles used to build the compressed
> kernel redefine KBUILD_CFLAGS, dropping this flag.
> 
> Add the flag to the Makefile for the compressed kernel, as well as the
> EFI stub Makefile to fix this.
> 
> Also add the flag to boot/Makefile and realmode/rm/Makefile so that the
> kernel's boot code (boot/setup.elf) and realmode trampoline
> (realmode/rm/realmode.elf) won't be compiled with .eh_frame sections,
> since their linker scripts also just discard it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>

Thanks for sorting this out. I think it's much cleaner than adding it to
DISCARD. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-Kees

> Suggested-By: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200222185806.ywnqhfqmy67akfsa@google.com/
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/Makefile                | 1 +
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile     | 1 +
>  arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile         | 1 +
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 3 ++-
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> index 012b82fc8617..24f011e0adf1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ clean-files += cpustr.h
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	:= $(REALMODE_CFLAGS) -D_SETUP
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS	:= $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
>  GCOV_PROFILE := n
>  UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
>  
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> index 26050ae0b27e..c33111341325 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
>  
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS  := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
>  GCOV_PROFILE := n
> diff --git a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
> index 99b6332ba540..b11ec5d8f8ac 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
> @@ -71,5 +71,6 @@ $(obj)/realmode.relocs: $(obj)/realmode.elf FORCE
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	:= $(REALMODE_CFLAGS) -D_SETUP -D_WAKEUP \
>  		   -I$(srctree)/arch/x86/boot
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS	:= $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
>  GCOV_PROFILE := n
>  UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> index 98a81576213d..a1140c4ee478 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_X86)		+= -m$(BITS) -D__KERNEL__ -O2 \
>  				   -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fshort-wchar \
>  				   -Wno-pointer-sign \
>  				   $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member) \
> -				   $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu)
> +				   $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu) \
> +				   -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
>  
>  # arm64 uses the full KBUILD_CFLAGS so it's necessary to explicitly
>  # disable the stackleak plugin
> -- 
> 2.24.1
> 

-- 
Kees Cook