[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 07/16] x86/build: Treat R_386_PLT32 relocation as R_386_PC32

Sasha Levin
2021-02-24T14:17:52Z

From: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>

[ Upstream commit bb73d07148c405c293e576b40af37737faf23a6a ]

This is similar to commit

b21ebf2fb4cd ("x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32")

but for i386. As far as the kernel is concerned, R_386_PLT32 can be
treated the same as R_386_PC32.

R_386_PLT32/R_X86_64_PLT32 are PC-relative relocation types which
can only be used by branches. If the referenced symbol is defined
externally, a PLT will be used.

R_386_PC32/R_X86_64_PC32 are PC-relative relocation types which can be
used by address taking operations and branches. If the referenced symbol
is defined externally, a copy relocation/canonical PLT entry will be
created in the executable.

On x86-64, there is no PIC vs non-PIC PLT distinction and an
R_X86_64_PLT32 relocation is produced for both `call/jmp foo` and
`call/jmp foo@PLT` with newer (2018) GNU as/LLVM integrated assembler.
This avoids canonical PLT entries (st_shndx=0, st_value!=0).

On i386, there are 2 types of PLTs, PIC and non-PIC. Currently,
the GCC/GNU as convention is to use R_386_PC32 for non-PIC PLT and
R_386_PLT32 for PIC PLT. Copy relocations/canonical PLT entries
are possible ABI issues but GCC/GNU as will likely keep the status
quo because (1) the ABI is legacy (2) the change will drop a GNU
ld diagnostic for non-default visibility ifunc in shared objects.

clang-12 -fno-pic (since [1]) can emit R_386_PLT32 for compiler
generated function declarations, because preventing canonical PLT
entries is weighed over the rare ifunc diagnostic.

Further info for the more interested:

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1210
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27169
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a084c0388e2a59b9556f2de0083333232da3f1d6 [1]

[ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210127205600.1227437-1-maskray@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/module.c | 1 +
arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 12 ++++++++----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
index f58336af095c9..1ccfe6bb9122e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ int apply_relocate(Elf32_Shdr *sechdrs,
*location += sym->st_value;
break;
case R_386_PC32:
+ case R_386_PLT32:
/* Add the value, subtract its position */
*location += sym->st_value - (uint32_t)location;
break;
diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
index 220e97841e494..c58b631781233 100644
--- a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
@@ -840,9 +840,11 @@ static int do_reloc32(struct section *sec, Elf_Rel *rel, Elf_Sym *sym,
case R_386_PC32:
case R_386_PC16:
case R_386_PC8:
+ case R_386_PLT32:
/*
- * NONE can be ignored and PC relative relocations don't
- * need to be adjusted.
+ * NONE can be ignored and PC relative relocations don't need
+ * to be adjusted. Because sym must be defined, R_386_PLT32 can
+ * be treated the same way as R_386_PC32.
*/
break;

@@ -883,9 +885,11 @@ static int do_reloc_real(struct section *sec, Elf_Rel *rel, Elf_Sym *sym,
case R_386_PC32:
case R_386_PC16:
case R_386_PC8:
+ case R_386_PLT32:
/*
- * NONE can be ignored and PC relative relocations don't
- * need to be adjusted.
+ * NONE can be ignored and PC relative relocations don't need
+ * to be adjusted. Because sym must be defined, R_386_PLT32 can
+ * be treated the same way as R_386_PC32.
*/
break;

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