[PATCH v5 14/36] efi/libstub: Disable -mbranch-protection

Kees Cook
2020-07-31T23:08:44Z

In preparation for adding --orphan-handling=warn to more architectures,
disable -mbranch-protection, as EFI does not yet support it[1]. This was
noticed due to it producing unwanted .note.gnu.property sections (prefixed
with .init due to the objcopy build step).

However, we must also work around a bug in Clang where the section is
still emitted for code-less object files[2], so also remove the section
during the objcopy.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMj1kXHck12juGi=E=P4hWP_8vQhQ+-x3vBMc3TGeRWdQ-XkxQ@mail.gmail.com
[2] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46480

Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
index b4f8c80cc591..d7d395ede89f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_X86) += -m$(BITS) -D__KERNEL__ \
# arm64 uses the full KBUILD_CFLAGS so it's necessary to explicitly
# disable the stackleak plugin
cflags-$(CONFIG_ARM64) := $(subst $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) \
- -fpie $(DISABLE_STACKLEAK_PLUGIN)
+ -fpie $(DISABLE_STACKLEAK_PLUGIN) \
+ $(call cc-option,-mbranch-protection=none)
cflags-$(CONFIG_ARM) := $(subst $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) \
-fno-builtin -fpic \
$(call cc-option,-mno-single-pic-base)
@@ -66,6 +67,12 @@ lib-$(CONFIG_X86) += x86-stub.o
CFLAGS_arm32-stub.o := -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
CFLAGS_arm64-stub.o := -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)

+# Even when -mbranch-protection=none is set, Clang will generate a
+# .note.gnu.property for code-less object files (like lib/ctype.c),
+# so work around this by explicitly removing the unwanted section.
+# https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46480
+STUBCOPY_FLAGS-y += --remove-section=.note.gnu.property
+
#
# For x86, bootloaders like systemd-boot or grub-efi do not zero-initialize the
# .bss section, so the .bss section of the EFI stub needs to be included in the
--
2.25.1