Re: [PATCH v8 03/14] x86: Add support for function granular KASLR

Alexander Lobakin
2021-12-03T13:59:54Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 10:18:47 +0100

> On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 11:32:03PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > This commit contains the changes required to re-layout the kernel text
> > sections generated by -ffunction-sections shortly after decompression.
> > Documentation of the feature is also added.
> >
> > After decompression, the decompressed image's elf headers are parsed.
> > In order to manually update certain data structures that are built with
> > relative offsets during the kernel build process, certain symbols are
> > not stripped by objdump and their location is retained in the elf symbol
> > tables. These addresses are saved.
> >
> > If the image was built with -ffunction-sections, there will be ELF section
> > headers present which contain information about the address range of each
> > section. Anything that is not broken out into function sections (i.e. is
> > consolidated into .text) is left in it's original location, but any other
> > executable section which begins with ".text." is located and shuffled
> > randomly within the remaining text segment address range.
> >
> > After the sections have been copied to their new locations, but before
> > relocations have been applied, the kallsyms tables must be updated to
> > reflect the new symbol locations. Because it is expected that these tables
> > will be sorted by address, the kallsyms tables will need to be sorted
> > after the update.
> >
> > When applying relocations, the address of the relocation needs to be
> > adjusted by the offset from the original location of the section that was
> > randomized to it's new location. In addition, if a value at that relocation
> > was a location in the text segment that was randomized, it's value will be
> > adjusted to a new location.
> >
> > After relocations have been applied, the exception table must be updated
> > with new symbol locations, and then re-sorted by the new address. The
> > orc table will have been updated as part of applying relocations, but since
> > it is expected to be sorted by address, it will need to be resorted.
>
>
> > +static long addr_kallsyms_names;
> > +static long addr_kallsyms_offsets;
> > +static long addr_kallsyms_num_syms;
> > +static long addr_kallsyms_relative_base;
> > +static long addr_kallsyms_markers;
> > +static long addr___start___ex_table;
> > +static long addr___stop___ex_table;
> > +static long addr___altinstr_replacement;
> > +static long addr___altinstr_replacement_end;
> > +static long addr__stext;
> > +static long addr__etext;
> > +static long addr__sinittext;
> > +static long addr__einittext;
> > +static long addr___start_orc_unwind_ip;
> > +static long addr___stop_orc_unwind_ip;
> > +static long addr___start_orc_unwind;
>
> > +void post_relocations_cleanup(unsigned long map)
> > +{
> > + if (!nofgkaslr) {
> > + update_ex_table(map);
> > + sort_ex_table(map);
> > + update_orc_table(map);
> > + sort_orc_table(map);
> > + }
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * maybe one day free will do something. So, we "free" this memory
> > + * in either case
> > + */
> > + free(sections);
> > + free(sechdrs);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void pre_relocations_cleanup(unsigned long map)
> > +{
> > + if (nofgkaslr)
> > + return;
> > +
> > + sort_kallsyms(map);
> > +}
>
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.symbols b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.symbols
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..da41f3ee153c
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.symbols
> > @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> > +kallsyms_offsets
> > +kallsyms_addresses
> > +kallsyms_num_syms
> > +kallsyms_relative_base
> > +kallsyms_names
> > +kallsyms_token_table
> > +kallsyms_token_index
> > +kallsyms_markers
> > +__start___ex_table
> > +__stop___ex_table
> > +__altinstr_replacement
> > +__altinstr_replacement_end
> > +_sinittext
> > +_einittext
> > +_stext
> > +_etext
> > +__start_orc_unwind_ip
> > +__stop_orc_unwind_ip
> > +__start_orc_unwind
>
> So please don't make it hard to add sections; the above has far too much
> duplication. For example you can trivially generate the addr_ symbol and
> the .symbol file from a common include file and a bit of macro wrappery,
> ideally that macro wrappery would also specify the sort location and
> function such that you can also generate those pre_ and post_ functions.

Re automatical generation using some wrappery -- sounds nice.
I mostly was only doing makeup for Kristen's commits so didn't pay
attention to that duplication.

> And this is only for sections that need to be sorted right? There's
> currently a patch in flight to also pre-sort the ftrace table.

Kallsyms, ORC tables and extable are getting sorted. text, inittext
and altinstr_replacement related symbols are needed to perform
shuffling (text) and relocation fixups (altinsr, inittext).

> All unsorted or runtime sorted sections are fine since they're fixed up
> by the relocations?

Right.

> Is it at all feasible to share the comparison functions between the
> various sorters?

They look very similar, I think it'd be fine to merge them (seems
like not only cmp, but adjust functions as well).

Thanks,
Al