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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] arm64: asm: Override SYM_FUNC_START when building the kernel with BTI
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 08:10:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200506071025.GA7021@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200505172100.GI5377@sirena.org.uk>

On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:21:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 05:08:53PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 04:18:06PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > > I also see a scary linker warning about the native VDSO:
> 
> > > > aarch64-none-linux-gnu-ld: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o: warning: BTI turned on by -z force-bti when all inputs do not have BTI in NOTE section.
> 
> > > I can't reproduce this, I am using clang-10 as well...  can you share
> > > your exact command line and config?  I'm using
> 
> > Just been debugging this, and it seems that not all clangs are created
> > equal. Updating mine from 10.0.2 to 11.0.1 means I now get the
> > '.note.gnu.property' sections emitted for C files compiled using
> > '-mbranch-protection=pac-ret+leaf+bti', whereas I didn't before.
> 
> Oh, that's irritating.  I'm using clang from the llvm.org packages,
> currently that's:
> 
>     10.0.0-++20200115115127+cbe681bd833-1~exp1~20200115105727.528
> 
> so if this is a clang issue it looks like they fixed it in the clang-10
> branch.  I'm not sure it's worth trying to detect and handle this or
> not, I don't know how widely deployed toolchains that don't emit the
> property are and there's a fairly clear solution.  What do you think?

The linker fixes this up when it warns, right? If so, I think the current
behaviour is fine *but* we might want to improve the diagnostic a bit not
to worry/confuse people. e.g. something like:

  "Your compiler is not emitting '.note.gnu.property' sections: forcing
   support for BTI in the linker, but consider upgrading your toolchain."

Will

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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-29 21:16 [PATCH v2 00/10] arm64: BTI kernel and vDSO support Mark Brown
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] arm64: bti: Support building kernel C code using BTI Mark Brown
2020-05-05 16:50   ` Dave Martin
2020-05-05 17:31     ` Mark Brown
2020-05-06 12:24       ` Amit Kachhap
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] arm64: asm: Override SYM_FUNC_START when building the kernel with BTI Mark Brown
2020-05-05 14:56   ` Will Deacon
2020-05-05 15:18     ` Mark Brown
2020-05-05 16:08       ` Will Deacon
2020-05-05 17:21         ` Mark Brown
2020-05-06  7:10           ` Will Deacon [this message]
2020-05-06 10:41             ` Mark Brown
2020-05-06 10:50               ` Will Deacon
2020-05-06 11:43                 ` Mark Brown
2020-05-06 12:27                   ` Will Deacon
2020-05-06 13:03                     ` Mark Brown
2020-05-06 13:40                 ` Dave Martin
2020-05-06 14:45                   ` Will Deacon
2020-05-06 15:25                     ` Mark Brown
2020-05-06 15:48                       ` Will Deacon
2020-05-06 15:33                     ` Dave Martin
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] arm64: Set GP bit in kernel page tables to enable BTI for the kernel Mark Brown
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] arm64: bpf: Annotate JITed code for BTI Mark Brown
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] arm64: mm: Mark executable text as guarded pages Mark Brown
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] arm64: bti: Provide Kconfig for kernel mode BTI Mark Brown
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] arm64: asm: Provide a mechanism for generating ELF note for BTI Mark Brown
2020-05-05 14:58   ` Will Deacon
2020-05-05 16:51     ` Dave Martin
2020-05-05 17:06     ` Mark Brown
2020-05-06 11:26       ` Will Deacon
2020-05-06 12:38         ` Mark Brown
2020-05-06 13:44           ` Will Deacon
2020-05-06 15:39             ` Mark Brown
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] arm64: vdso: Annotate " Mark Brown
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] arm64: vdso: Force the vDSO to be linked as BTI when built " Mark Brown
2020-04-29 21:16 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] arm64: vdso: Map the vDSO text with guarded pages " Mark Brown
2020-04-30 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] arm64: BTI kernel and vDSO support Catalin Marinas
2020-04-30 17:23   ` Mark Brown

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