Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] x86/boot/compressed: Move .got.plt entries out of the .got section

Kees Cook
2020-06-29T19:27:52Z

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:09:22AM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
>
> The .got.plt section contains the part of the GOT which is used by PLT
> entries, and which gets updated lazily by the dynamic loader when
> function calls are dispatched through those PLT entries.
>
> On fully linked binaries such as the kernel proper or the decompressor,
> this never happens, and so in practice, the .got.plt section consists
> only of the first 3 magic entries that are meant to point at the _DYNAMIC
> section and at the fixup routine in the loader. However, since we don't
> use a dynamic loader, those entries are never populated or used.
>
> This means that treating those entries like ordinary GOT entries, and
> updating their values based on the actual placement of the executable in
> memory is completely pointless, and we can just ignore the .got.plt
> section entirely, provided that it has no additional entries beyond
> the first 3 ones.
>
> So add an assertion in the linker script to ensure that this assumption
> holds, and move the contents out of the [_got, _egot) memory range that
> is modified by the GOT fixup routines.
>
> While at it, drop the KEEP(), since it has no effect on the contents
> of output sections that are created by the linker itself.
>
> 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/20200523120021.34996-2-ardb@kernel.org
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 8f1025d1f681..b17d218ccdf9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -44,10 +44,13 @@ SECTIONS
> }
> .got : {
> _got = .;
> - KEEP(*(.got.plt))
> KEEP(*(.got))
> _egot = .;
> }
> + .got.plt : {
> + *(.got.plt)
> + }

This is also being done on arm64, and the section was specified slightly
differently (with INFO) which maybe should be done here too?

.got.plt (INFO) : { *(.got.plt) }
ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18, ".got.plt not empty")

Otherwise, yes, looks good.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

> +
> .data : {
> _data = . ;
> *(.data)
> @@ -77,3 +80,9 @@ SECTIONS
>
> DISCARDS
> }
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> +ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18, "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
> +#else
> +ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0xc, "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
> +#endif
> --
> 2.26.2
>

--
Kees Cook