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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 4/9] x86/build: Warn on orphan section placement
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 17:44, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 02:36:27AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> > I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:
> > [...]
> > config: x86_64-randconfig-a012-20200624 (attached as .config)
>
> CONFIG_KCSAN=y
>
> > compiler: clang version 11.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 1d4c87335d5236ea1f35937e1014980ba961ae34)
> > [...]
> > All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
> >
> > ld.lld: warning: drivers/built-in.a(mfd/mt6397-irq.o):(.init_array.0) is being placed in '.init_array.0'
>
> As far as I can tell, this is a Clang bug. But I don't know the
> internals here, so I've opened:
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46478
>
> and created a work-around patch for the kernel:

Thanks, minor comments below.

With KCSAN this is:

Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>


> commit 915f2c343e59a14f00c68f4d7afcfdc621de0674
> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Date: Sat Jun 27 08:07:54 2020 -0700
>
> vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid KCSAN's unwanted sections

Since you found that it's also KASAN, this probably wants updating.

> KCSAN (-fsanitize=thread) produces unwanted[1] .eh_frame and .init_array.*
> sections. Add them to DISCARDS, except with CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS, which
> wants to keep .init_array.* sections.
>
> [1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46478
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
> index f8a5b2333729..41c8c73de6c4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
> @@ -195,7 +195,9 @@ endif
> # Workaround for a gcc prelease that unfortunately was shipped in a suse release
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
> #
> -KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
> +KBUILD_AFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-unwind-tables
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-unwind-tables
> +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option,--no-ld-generated-unwind-info)

Why are they needed? They are not mentioned in the commit message.

> # Avoid indirect branches in kernel to deal with Spectre
> ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> index b1dca0762fc5..a44ee16abc78 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> @@ -934,10 +934,28 @@
> EXIT_DATA
> #endif
>
> +/*
> + * Clang's -fsanitize=thread produces unwanted sections (.eh_frame
> + * and .init_array.*), but CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS wants to keep any
> + * .init_array.* sections.
> + * https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46478
> + */
> +#if defined(CONFIG_KCSAN) && !defined(CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS)

CONFIG_KASAN as well?

> +#define KCSAN_DISCARDS \
> + *(.init_array) *(.init_array.*) \
> + *(.eh_frame)
> +#elif defined(CONFIG_KCSAN) && defined(CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS)
> +#define KCSAN_DISCARDS \
> + *(.eh_frame)
> +#else
> +#define KCSAN_DISCARDS
> +#endif
> +
> #define DISCARDS \
> /DISCARD/ : { \
> EXIT_DISCARDS \
> EXIT_CALL \
> + KCSAN_DISCARDS \

Maybe just 'SANITIZER_DISCARDS'?

> *(.discard) \
> *(.discard.*) \
> *(.modinfo) \
>
> --
> Kees Cook

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