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From: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] arm64: lds: move .got section out of .text
Date: Mon,  1 May 2023 22:25:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230501222551.1254686-1-maskray@google.com> (raw)

Currently, the .got section is placed within the output section .text.
However, when .got is non-empty, the SHF_WRITE flag is set for .text
when linked by lld. GNU ld recognizes .text as a special section and
ignores the SHF_WRITE flag. By renaming .text, we can also get the
SHF_WRITE flag.

The kernel has performed R_AARCH64_RELATIVE resolving very early, and can
then assume that .got is read-only. Let's move .got to the vmlinux_rodata
pseudo-segment. The change avoids a section with both executable and
writable permissions.

Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>

--
Changes from v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230428050442.180913-1-maskray@google.com/)
* move .got to the vmlinux_rodata pseudo-segment as suggested by Ard Biesheuvel
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 19 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b9202c2ee18e..3cd7e76cc562 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -181,10 +181,17 @@ SECTIONS
 			KPROBES_TEXT
 			HYPERVISOR_TEXT
 			*(.gnu.warning)
-		. = ALIGN(16);
-		*(.got)			/* Global offset table		*/
 	}
 
+	. = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
+	_etext = .;			/* End of text section */
+
+	/* everything from this point to __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
+	RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
+
+	HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTIONS
+
+	.got : { *(.got) }
 	/*
 	 * Make sure that the .got.plt is either completely empty or it
 	 * contains only the lazy dispatch entries.
@@ -193,14 +200,6 @@ SECTIONS
 	ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18,
 	       "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
 
-	. = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
-	_etext = .;			/* End of text section */
-
-	/* everything from this point to __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
-	RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
-
-	HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTIONS
-
 	/* code sections that are never executed via the kernel mapping */
 	.rodata.text : {
 		TRAMP_TEXT
-- 
2.40.1.495.gc816e09b53d-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2023-05-01 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-01 22:25 Fangrui Song [this message]
2023-05-02  7:31 ` Ard Biesheuvel

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