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Subject[PATCH] x86: assemble with -Wa,--noexecstack to avoid BFD 2.39 warning
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Users of GNU ld (BFD) from binutils 2.39+ will observe multiple instance
of a new warning when linking kernels in the form:

ld: warning: arch/x86/realmode/rm/bioscall.o: missing .note.GNU-stack
section implies executable stack
ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future
version of the linker

The object files producing these all happen to be out of line assembler
sources (*.S files).

Generally, we would like to avoid the stack being executable. Because
there could be a need for the stack to be executable, assembler sources
have to opt-in to this security feature via explicit creation of the
.note.GNU-stack feature (which compilers create by default) or command
line flag --noexecstack.

Boot tested defconfig and i386_defconfig in QEMU. If any assembler
sources do require executable stack, they can be built with
-Wa,--execstack, though the linker warning would have to be disabled. We
might need to extend this more generally to the top level Makefile for
all architectures, but I'm not equipped to test the result of such a
change.

LLVM's LLD linker defaults to -z noexecstack, so this flag isn't
strictly necessary when linking with LLD, only BFD, but it doesn't hurt
to be explicit here for all linkers IMO.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/3af4127a-f453-4cf7-f133-a181cce06f73@kernel.dk/
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=ba951afb99912da01a6e8434126b8fac7aa75107
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57009
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
---
arch/x86/Makefile | 2 ++
arch/x86/boot/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile | 2 +-
4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 7854685c5f25..571546775725 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ else
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mcmodel=kernel
endif

+KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,--noexecstack
+
#
# If the function graph tracer is used with mcount instead of fentry,
# '-maccumulate-outgoing-args' is needed to prevent a GCC bug
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
index b5aecb524a8a..d7f2130f2277 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ targets += cpustr.h
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(REALMODE_CFLAGS) -D_SETUP
-KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
+KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__ -Wa,--noexecstack
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
GCOV_PROFILE := n
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 19e1905dcbf6..1587a21a132d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -include $(srctree)/include/linux/hidden.h
# that the compiler finds it even with out-of-tree builds (make O=/some/path).
CFLAGS_sev.o += -I$(objtree)/arch/x86/lib/

-KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
+KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__ -Wa,--noexecstack
GCOV_PROFILE := n
UBSAN_SANITIZE :=n

diff --git a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
index 83f1b6a56449..5f2fdafaa034 100644
--- a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ $(obj)/realmode.relocs: $(obj)/realmode.elf FORCE

KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(REALMODE_CFLAGS) -D_SETUP -D_WAKEUP \
-I$(srctree)/arch/x86/boot
-KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
+KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__ -Wa,--noexecstack
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
GCOV_PROFILE := n
UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
--
2.37.1.559.g78731f0fdb-goog
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