Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] x86/boot/compressed: Force hidden visibility for all symbol references

Sedat Dilek
2020-07-14T09:21:11Z

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:09 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
>
> Eliminate all GOT entries in the decompressor binary, by forcing hidden
> visibility for all symbol references, which informs the compiler that
> such references will be resolved at link time without the need for
> allocating GOT entries.
>
> To ensure that no GOT entries will creep back in, add an assertion to
> the decompressor linker script that will fire if the .got section has
> a non-zero size.
>
> [Arvind: fixup -include hidden.h to -include $(srctree)/$(src)/hidden.h]
>

Thanks for your v3 patchset.

I tried your initial patchset and informed you about the <hidden.h>
include file handling.
Dropped your patchset against Linux v5.7 as I got no (satisfying) replies.
For me this one is missing a Reported-by of mine.

As I want to test the whole v3 series, I will report later.

- Sedat -

> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200523120021.34996-3-ardb@kernel.org
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/hidden.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/hidden.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> index 7619742f91c9..b01c8aed0f23 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu)
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -include $(srctree)/$(src)/hidden.h
>
> KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
> GCOV_PROFILE := n
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/hidden.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/hidden.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..49a17b6b5962
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/hidden.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/*
> + * When building position independent code with GCC using the -fPIC option,
> + * (or even the -fPIE one on older versions), it will assume that we are
> + * building a dynamic object (either a shared library or an executable) that
> + * may have symbol references that can only be resolved at load time. For a
> + * variety of reasons (ELF symbol preemption, the CoW footprint of the section
> + * that is modified by the loader), this results in all references to symbols
> + * with external linkage to go via entries in the Global Offset Table (GOT),
> + * which carries absolute addresses which need to be fixed up when the
> + * executable image is loaded at an offset which is different from its link
> + * time offset.
> + *
> + * Fortunately, there is a way to inform the compiler that such symbol
> + * references will be satisfied at link time rather than at load time, by
> + * giving them 'hidden' visibility.
> + */
> +
> +#pragma GCC visibility push(hidden)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> index b17d218ccdf9..4bcc943842ab 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ SECTIONS
> DISCARDS
> }
>
> +ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got) == 0, "Unexpected GOT entries detected!")
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18, "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
> #else
> --
> 2.26.2
>