From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A29EC77B75 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233126AbjDRVtj (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:49:39 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37378 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233089AbjDRVtg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:49:36 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFC3C49FD; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:49:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A92163985; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5E49FC433D2; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:49:27 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1681854568; bh=EmrFUT/eYHiutiyWMgwlwsEKO7EDPGWzF/8vU7NjxTM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=oLV9wxq6fo0KJRnjFHjrkOxZ4wW9+MHVySebMJil1Nu/dFX3RyGQ+P21wRo15mr5g hZStLwD4z0HEI9ttY+EEW0Ft2rxRaVYtOC1vlVqerlFUzxkjH1SwuJ25pJHXHAsE0J kHN/WqRL56xXTKnxPHCjTZ1T7O06Ktjvc6OtgCjM0a1wH3Sy43AyJnRT8UQKnFNE/5 eX1G1Ki2n3zxn4th9W6U5QRqbPHwvzQm6uV/dvVptsOjyv3EHMfFdFzXUqBe7JJlHa 7EuA02nARoPlSgBzfovOPIzo2riC8Fr3PbRwHFHBPm5+2oHkEXoRdX5sO066rEyHaw hIeCjsRc6CyIQ== Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:49:25 -0700 From: Josh Poimboeuf To: Joan Bruguera =?utf-8?B?TWljw7M=?= Cc: i.pear@outlook.com, acme@kernel.org, alan.maguire@oracle.com, alexandref75@gmail.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org, dxu@dxuuu.xyz, jforbes@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olsajiri@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org, ptalbert@redhat.com, yhs@fb.com Subject: [PATCH v2] vmlinux.lds.h: Discard .note.gnu.property section Message-ID: <20230418214925.ay3jpf2zhw75kgmd@treble> References: <20230413185922.ufmollqlnlghwyvy@treble> <20230416190219.2600911-1-joanbrugueram@gmail.com> <20230418214701.4qky77rsxxytyoc2@treble> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20230418214701.4qky77rsxxytyoc2@treble> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When tooling reads ELF notes, it assumes each note entry is aligned to the value listed in the .note section header's sh_addralign field. The kernel-created ELF notes in the .note.Linux and .note.Xen sections are aligned to 4 bytes. This causes the toolchain to set those sections' sh_addralign values to 4. On the other hand, the GCC-created .note.gnu.property section has an sh_addralign value of 8 for some reason, despite being based on struct Elf32_Nhdr which only needs 4-byte alignment. When the mismatched input sections get linked together into the vmlinux .notes output section, the higher alignment "wins", resulting in an sh_addralign of 8, which confuses tooling. For example: $ readelf -n .tmp_vmlinux.btf ... readelf: .tmp_vmlinux.btf: Warning: note with invalid namesz and/or descsz found at offset 0x170 readelf: .tmp_vmlinux.btf: Warning: type: 0x4, namesize: 0x006e6558, descsize: 0x00008801, alignment: 8 In this case readelf thinks there's alignment padding where there is none, so it starts reading an ELF note in the middle. With newer toolchains (e.g., latest Fedora Rawhide), a similar mismatch triggers a build failure when combined with CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT: btf_encoder__encode: btf__dedup failed! Failed to encode BTF libbpf: failed to find '.BTF' ELF section in vmlinux FAILED: load BTF from vmlinux: No data available make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:35: vmlinux] Error 255 This latter error was caused by pahole crashing when it encountered the corrupt .notes section. This crash has been fixed in dwarves version 1.25. As Tianyi Liu describes: "Pahole reads .notes to look for LINUX_ELFNOTE_BUILD_LTO. When LTO is enabled, pahole needs to call cus__merge_and_process_cu to merge compile units, at which point there should only be one unspecified type (used to represent some compilation information) in the global context. However, when the kernel is compiled without LTO, if pahole calls cus__merge_and_process_cu due to alignment issues with notes, multiple unspecified types may appear after merging the cus, and older versions of pahole only support up to one. This is why pahole 1.24 crashes, while newer versions support multiple. However, the latest version of pahole still does not solve the problem of incorrect LTO recognition, so compiling the kernel may be slower than normal." Even with the newer pahole, the note section misaligment issue still exists and pahole is misinterpreting the LTO note. Fix it by discarding the .note.gnu.property section. While GNU properties are important for user space (and VDSO), they don't seem to have any use for vmlinux. (In fact, they're already getting (inadvertently) stripped from vmlinux when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is enabled. The BTF data is extracted from vmlinux.o with "objcopy --only-section=.BTF" into .btf.vmlinux.bin.o. That file doesn't have .note.gnu.property, so when it gets modified and linked back into the main object, the linker automatically strips it (see "How GNU properties are merged" in the ld man page).) Reported-by: Daniel Xu Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/bpf/57830c30-cd77-40cf-9cd1-3bb608aa602e@app.fastmail.com Debugged-by: Tianyi Liu Suggested-by: Joan Bruguera Micó Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf --- v2: - fixed link - combined discards - updated comment include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index d1f57e4868ed..cebdf1ca415d 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -891,9 +891,16 @@ /* * Discard .note.GNU-stack, which is emitted as PROGBITS by the compiler. * Otherwise, the type of .notes section would become PROGBITS instead of NOTES. + * + * Also, discard .note.gnu.property, otherwise it forces the notes section to + * be 8-byte aligned which causes alignment mismatches with the kernel's custom + * 4-byte aligned notes. */ #define NOTES \ - /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) } \ + /DISCARD/ : { \ + *(.note.GNU-stack) \ + *(.note.gnu.property) \ + } \ .notes : AT(ADDR(.notes) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.note.*, _notes) \ } NOTES_HEADERS \ -- 2.39.2