Re: [PATCH 5.15 v2 1/5] arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv

Tom Saeger
2023-02-24T02:48:21Z

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 11:53:42AM -0600, Tom Saeger wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 10:51:45AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 01:18:40PM -0700, Tom Saeger wrote:
> > > From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > commit 99cb0d917ffa1ab628bb67364ca9b162c07699b1 upstream.
> > >
> > > Dennis Gilmore reports that the BuildID is missing in the arm64 vmlinux
> > > since commit 994b7ac1697b ("arm64: remove special treatment for the
> > > link order of head.o").
> > >
> > > The issue is that the type of .notes section, which contains the BuildID,
> > > changed from NOTES to PROGBITS.
> > >
> > > Ard Biesheuvel figured out that whichever object gets linked first gets
> > > to decide the type of a section. The PROGBITS type is the result of the
> > > compiler emitting .note.GNU-stack as PROGBITS rather than NOTE.
> > >
> > > While Ard provided a fix for arm64, I want to fix this globally because
> > > the same issue is happening on riscv since commit 2348e6bf4421 ("riscv:
> > > remove special treatment for the link order of head.o"). This problem
> > > will happen in general for other architectures if they start to drop
> > > unneeded entries from scripts/head-object-list.txt.
> > >
> > > Discard .note.GNU-stack in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.
> > >
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAABkxwuQoz1CTbyb57n0ZX65eSYiTonFCU8-LCQc=74D=xE=rA@mail.gmail.com/
> > > Fixes: 994b7ac1697b ("arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o")
> > > Fixes: 2348e6bf4421 ("riscv: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o")

Greg, how about something like this tacked onto backport of this commit?

[Tom: stable backport 5.15.y, 5.10.y, 5.4.y]

Though the above "Fixes:" commits are not in this kernel, the conditions
which lead to a missing Build ID in arm64 vmlinux are similar.

Evidence points to these conditions:
1. ld version > 2.36 (exact binutils commit documented in a494398bde27)
2. first object which gets linked (head.o) has a PROGBITS .note.GNU-stack segment

These conditions can be observed when:
- 5.15.60+ OR 5.10.136+ OR 5.4.210+
- AND ld version > 2.36
- AND arch=arm64
- AND CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y

This was previously bisected to the stable backport of 0d362be5b142.
Follow-up experiments were discussed here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221221235413.xaisboqmr7dkqwn6@oracle.com/
which strongly hints at condition 2.

> >
> > Why are we adding a commit to 5.15.y that fixes an issue that only
> > showed up in 6.1.y?

If you approve - I'll send v3 for 5.15, 5.10, and 5.4 (with style fixes).

Cheers,

--Tom