Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/boot: Check that there are no runtime relocations

[Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>]

On 2020-05-25, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 23:28, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Add a linker script check that there are no runtime relocations, and
>> remove the old one that tries to check via looking for specially-named
>> sections in the object files.
>>
>> Drop the tests for -fPIE compiler option and -pie linker option, as they
>> are available in all supported gcc and binutils versions (as well as
>> clang and lld).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile      | 28 +++-----------------------
>>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 ++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
>> index d3e882e855ee..679a2b383bfe 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
>> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma \
>>         vmlinux.bin.xz vmlinux.bin.lzo vmlinux.bin.lz4
>>
>>  KBUILD_CFLAGS := -m$(BITS) -O2
>> -KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing $(call cc-option, -fPIE, -fPIC)
>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIE
>>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
>>  cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_32) := -march=i386
>>  cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := -mcmodel=small
>> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ UBSAN_SANITIZE :=n
>>  KBUILD_LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)
>>  # Compressed kernel should be built as PIE since it may be loaded at any
>>  # address by the bootloader.
>> -KBUILD_LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option, -pie) $(call ld-option, --no-dynamic-linker)
>> +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -pie $(call ld-option, --no-dynamic-linker)
>>  LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -T
>>
>>  hostprogs      := mkpiggy
>> @@ -84,30 +84,8 @@ vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_ACPI) += $(obj)/acpi.o
>>  vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) += $(objtree)/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a
>>  vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_EFI_MIXED) += $(obj)/efi_thunk_$(BITS).o
>>
>> -# The compressed kernel is built with -fPIC/-fPIE so that a boot loader
>> -# can place it anywhere in memory and it will still run. However, since
>> -# it is executed as-is without any ELF relocation processing performed
>> -# (and has already had all relocation sections stripped from the binary),
>> -# none of the code can use data relocations (e.g. static assignments of
>> -# pointer values), since they will be meaningless at runtime. This check
>> -# will refuse to link the vmlinux if any of these relocations are found.
>> -quiet_cmd_check_data_rel = DATAREL $@
>> -define cmd_check_data_rel
>> -       for obj in $(filter %.o,$^); do \
>> -               $(READELF) -S $$obj | grep -qF .rel.local && { \
>> -                       echo "error: $$obj has data relocations!" >&2; \
>> -                       exit 1; \
>> -               } || true; \
>> -       done
>> -endef
>> -
>> -# We need to run two commands under "if_changed", so merge them into a
>> -# single invocation.
>> -quiet_cmd_check-and-link-vmlinux = LD      $@
>> -      cmd_check-and-link-vmlinux = $(cmd_check_data_rel); $(cmd_ld)
>> -
>>  $(obj)/vmlinux: $(vmlinux-objs-y) FORCE
>> -       $(call if_changed,check-and-link-vmlinux)
>> +       $(call if_changed,ld)
>>
>>  OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinux.bin :=  -R .comment -S
>>  $(obj)/vmlinux.bin: vmlinux FORCE
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
>> index d826ab38a8f9..0ac14feacb24 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
>> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
>> @@ -11,9 +11,15 @@ OUTPUT_FORMAT(CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT)
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>>  OUTPUT_ARCH(i386:x86-64)
>>  ENTRY(startup_64)
>> +
>> +#define REL .rela
>> +
>>  #else
>>  OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
>>  ENTRY(startup_32)
>> +
>> +#define REL .rel
>> +
>>  #endif
>>
>>  SECTIONS
>> @@ -42,6 +48,9 @@ SECTIONS
>>                 *(.rodata.*)
>>                 _erodata = . ;
>>         }
>> +       REL.dyn : {
>> +               *(REL.*)
>> +       }
>
>Do we really need the macro here? Could we just do

The output section name does not matter: it will be discarded by the linker.

>.rel.dyn : { *(.rel.* .rela.*) }

If for some reasons there is at least one SHT_REL and at least one
SHT_RELA, LLD will error "section type mismatch for .rel.dyn", while the
intended diagnostic is the assert below.

>(or even
>
>.rel.dyn  : { *(.rel.* }
>.rela.dyn : { *(.rela.*) }
>
>if the output section name matters, and always assert that both are empty)?

   .rel.dyn  : { *(.rel.* }
   .rela.dyn : { *(.rela.*) }

looks good to me.


FWIW I intend to add -z rel and -z rela to LLD: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80496#inline-738804
(binutils thread https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2020-May/111244.html)

In case someone builds the x86-64 kernel with -z rel, your suggested
input section description will work out of the box...


>>         .got : {
>>                 *(.got)
>>         }
>> @@ -83,3 +92,5 @@ ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18, "Unexpected GOT/PLT en
>>  #else
>>  ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0xc, "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
>>  #endif
>> +
>> +ASSERT(SIZEOF(REL.dyn) == 0, "Unexpected runtime relocations detected!")
>> --
>> 2.26.2
>>