On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 18:09, Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:09:28AM -0400, Arvind Sankar 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 <nived...@alum.mit.edu>
> > Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <a...@kernel.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <mask...@google.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 28 +++-----------------------
> > arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 8 ++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
>
> question below ...
>
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> > b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> > index a4a4a59a2628..a78510046eec 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> > @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ SECTIONS
> > *(.rodata.*)
> > _erodata = . ;
> > }
> > + .rel.dyn : {
> > + *(.rel.*)
> > + }
> > + .rela.dyn : {
> > + *(.rela.*)
> > + }
> > .got : {
> > *(.got)
> > }
>
> Should these be marked (INFO) as well?
>
Given that sections marked as (INFO) will still be emitted into the
ELF image, it does not really make a difference to do this for zero
sized sections.
> > @@ -85,3 +91,5 @@ 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 && SIZEOF(.rela.dyn) == 0, "Unexpected
> > runtime relocations detected!")
>
> I think I should be doing this same ASSERT style for other explicit
> DISCARDS in my orphan series so we'll notice if they change, instead
> of being silently dropped if they grow.
>
