Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86/pvh: Avoid absolute symbol references in .head.text

[Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>]

On 2024-09-26 06:41, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> 
> The .head.text section contains code that may execute from a different
> address than it was linked at. This is fragile, given that the x86 ABI
> can refer to global symbols via absolute or relative references, and the
> toolchain assumes that these are interchangeable, which they are not in
> this particular case.
> 
> For this reason, all absolute symbol references are being removed from
> code that is emitted into .head.text. Subsequently, build time
> validation may be added that ensures that no absolute ELF relocations
> exist at all in that ELF section.
> 
> In the case of the PVH code, the absolute references are in 32-bit code,
> which get emitted with R_X86_64_32 relocations, and these are even more
> problematic going forward, as it prevents running the linker in PIE
> mode.
> 
> So update the 64-bit code to avoid _pa(), and to only rely on relative
> symbol references: these are always 32-bits wide, even in 64-bit code,
> and are resolved by the linker at build time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
Tested-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>

Thanks,
Jason