From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
To: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@redhat.com>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] ELF: Add ELF program property parsing support
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:03:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ddd0306f42c2b53ffbd8ee8c9b948c1d529cf98.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190830083415.GI27757@arm.com>
On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 09:34 +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 06:37:45AM +0100, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 06:23:40PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > ELF program properties will needed for detecting whether to enable
> > > optional architecture or ABI features for a new ELF process.
> > >
> > > For now, there are no generic properties that we care about, so do
> > > nothing unless CONFIG_ARCH_USE_GNU_PROPERTY=y.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, the presence of properties using the PT_PROGRAM_PROPERTY
> > > phdrs entry (if any), and notify each property to the arch code.
> > >
> > > For now, the added code is not used.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> Do you have any thoughts on Yu-Cheng Yu's comments? It would be nice to
> early-terminate the scan if we can, but my feeling so far was that the
> scan is cheap, the number of properties is unlikely to be more than a
> smallish integer, and the code separation benefits of just calling the
> arch code for every property probably likely outweigh the costs of
> having to iterate over every property. We could always optimise it
> later if necessary.
>
> I need to double-check that there's no way we can get stuck in an
> infinite loop with the current code, though I've not seen it in my
> testing. I should throw some malformed notes at it though.
Here is my arch_parse_elf_property() and objdump of the property.
The parser works fine.
Thanks,
Yu-cheng
int arch_parse_elf_property(u32 type, const void *data, size_t datasz,
bool compat, struct arch_elf_state *state)
{
if (type
!= GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_AND)
return -ENOENT;
if (datasz < sizeof(unsigned int))
return -ENOEXEC;
state->gnu_property = *(unsigned int *)data;
return 0;
}
Contents of section .note.gnu.property:
400338 04000000 30000000 05000000 474e5500 ....0.......GNU.
400348 020000c0 04000000 03000000 00000000 ................
400358 000001c0 04000000 00000000 00000000 ................
400368 010001c0 04000000 01000000 00000000 ................
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-30 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-23 17:23 [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] ELF: Alternate program property parser Dave Martin
2019-08-23 17:23 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] ELF: UAPI and Kconfig additions for ELF program properties Dave Martin
2019-08-23 17:23 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] ELF: Add ELF program property parsing support Dave Martin
2019-08-30 5:37 ` Kees Cook
2019-08-30 8:34 ` Dave Martin
2019-08-30 17:03 ` Yu-cheng Yu [this message]
2019-09-02 9:28 ` Dave Martin
2019-09-03 22:29 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2019-09-04 11:05 ` Dave Martin
2019-09-04 16:50 ` Kees Cook
2019-09-05 7:57 ` Dave Martin
2019-10-09 12:59 ` Dave Martin
2019-10-10 21:00 ` Kees Cook
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