From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Josh Poimboeuf' <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
"raphael.gault@arm.com" <raphael.gault@arm.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
"linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
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Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 12/17] gcc-plugins: objtool: Add plugin to detect switch table on arm64
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 14:24:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c14b5b8b11241cd8271ba5b3f785c51@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210202000203.rk7lh5mx4aflgkwr@treble>
Stirring more goop into the hole ....
Requiring gcc-plugins, matching compiler versions and the
same 'dwarf' format for OOT modules is probably very painful.
In many cases (and this may include drivers released by some
distributions) an OOT driver has two separate parts.
One part is C source that is compiled when the module is built
on the target system and against the installed kernel headers.
Getting this to match 'just' relies on having the correct
compiler (etc) installed and in $PATH.
The second part is much more problematic.
This is just an object file compiled by a third party.
It doesn't directly depend on anything defined in the
kernel headers - so can (currently) be linked into any
kernel version.
In the past some graphics drivers have had a third party
object file.
I think some of the laptop wifi drivers might as well.
Now I some people think everything should be free source.
But there are various commercial and practical reasons
for both OOT drivers and object file 'blobs' in OOT drivers.
David
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-20 17:37 [RFC PATCH 00/17] objtool: add base support for arm64 Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 01/17] tools: Add some generic functions and headers Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 02/17] tools: arm64: Make aarch64 instruction decoder available to tools Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 03/17] tools: bug: Remove duplicate definition Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 04/17] objtool: arm64: Add base definition for arm64 backend Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 05/17] objtool: arm64: Decode add/sub instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 06/17] objtool: arm64: Decode jump and call related instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 07/17] objtool: arm64: Decode other system instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 08/17] objtool: arm64: Decode load/store instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 09/17] objtool: arm64: Decode LDR instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 10/17] objtool: arm64: Accept padding in code sections Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 11/17] efi: libstub: Ignore relocations for .discard sections Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 12/17] gcc-plugins: objtool: Add plugin to detect switch table on arm64 Julien Thierry
2021-01-27 22:15 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-27 23:26 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-29 18:10 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-01 21:44 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-01 23:17 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-02 0:02 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-02 14:24 ` David Laight [this message]
2021-02-02 22:33 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-02 23:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-02 23:52 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-02 8:57 ` Julien Thierry
2021-02-02 23:01 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-03 0:14 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-03 11:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-02-03 13:04 ` Mark Brown
2021-02-03 13:58 ` Mark Rutland
2021-02-03 8:11 ` Julien Thierry
2021-02-09 16:30 ` Daniel Kiss
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 13/17] objtool: arm64: Implement functions to add switch tables alternatives Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 14/17] objtool: arm64: Cache section with switch table information Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 15/17] objtool: arm64: Handle supported relocations in alternatives Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 16/17] objtool: arm64: Ignore replacement section for alternative callback Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:38 ` [RFC PATCH 17/17] objtool: arm64: Enable stack validation for arm64 Julien Thierry
2021-01-21 9:03 ` [RFC PATCH 00/17] objtool: add base support " Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-21 10:26 ` Julien Thierry
2021-01-21 11:08 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-21 11:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-21 11:48 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-21 18:54 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-22 17:43 ` Mark Brown
2021-01-22 17:54 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-28 22:10 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-29 15:47 ` Mark Brown
2021-01-22 21:15 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-22 21:43 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-22 21:44 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-25 21:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-22 21:16 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-21 13:23 ` Julien Thierry
2021-01-21 14:23 ` Mark Brown
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