[RFC PATCH 07/10] arm64: use assembly time constants for Image header fields
Ard Biesheuvel
ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Mon Dec 28 03:20:51 PST 2015
Unfortunately, using the linker to emit build time constants into
the Image header will no longer work once we switch to the use of
PIE executables. The reason is that such constants are emitted into
the binary using R_AARCH64_ABS64 relocations, which we will resolve
at runtime, not at build time, and the places targeted by those
relocations will contain zeroes before that.
So move back to assembly time constants. These will be emitted in the
endianness of the target binary, so we will need a post-link fixup
step to byte swap the header fields.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
arch/arm64/boot/Makefile | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 32 ++++++++++------
arch/arm64/kernel/image.h | 40 --------------------
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 -
scripts/arm64fixhdr.pl | 25 ++++++++++++
5 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile b/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
index abcbba2f01ba..b2da54b4b796 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ targets := Image Image.gz
$(obj)/Image: vmlinux FORCE
$(call if_changed,objcopy)
+ @$(srctree)/scripts/arm64fixhdr.pl $@
$(obj)/Image.bz2: $(obj)/Image FORCE
$(call if_changed,bzip2)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 6434c844a0e4..a03ffffd84cb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -51,6 +51,17 @@
#define KERNEL_START _text
#define KERNEL_END _end
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+#define __HEAD_FLAG_BE 1
+#else
+#define __HEAD_FLAG_BE 0
+#endif
+
+#define __HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE ((PAGE_SHIFT - 10) / 2)
+
+#define __HEAD_FLAGS ((__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0) | \
+ (__HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE << 1))
+
/*
* Kernel startup entry point.
* ---------------------------
@@ -67,12 +78,12 @@
* in the entry routines.
*/
__HEAD
+_head:
/*
* DO NOT MODIFY. Image header expected by Linux boot-loaders.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_EFI
-efi_head:
/*
* This add instruction has no meaningful effect except that
* its opcode forms the magic "MZ" signature required by UEFI.
@@ -83,25 +94,22 @@ efi_head:
b stext // branch to kernel start, magic
.long 0 // reserved
#endif
- .quad _kernel_offset_le // Image load offset from start of RAM, little-endian
- .quad _kernel_size_le // Effective size of kernel image, little-endian
- .quad _kernel_flags_le // Informative flags, little-endian
+ .quad TEXT_OFFSET // Image load offset from start of RAM, little-endian
+ .quad _end - _head // Effective size of kernel image, little-endian
+ .quad __HEAD_FLAGS // Informative flags, little-endian
.quad 0 // reserved
.quad 0 // reserved
.quad 0 // reserved
- .byte 0x41 // Magic number, "ARM\x64"
- .byte 0x52
- .byte 0x4d
- .byte 0x64
+ .long 0x644d5241 // Magic number, "ARM\x64"
#ifdef CONFIG_EFI
- .long pe_header - efi_head // Offset to the PE header.
+ .long pe_header - _head // Offset to the PE header.
#else
.word 0 // reserved
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_EFI
.globl __efistub_stext_offset
- .set __efistub_stext_offset, stext - efi_head
+ .set __efistub_stext_offset, stext - _head
.align 3
pe_header:
.ascii "PE"
@@ -124,7 +132,7 @@ optional_header:
.long _end - stext // SizeOfCode
.long 0 // SizeOfInitializedData
.long 0 // SizeOfUninitializedData
- .long __efistub_entry - efi_head // AddressOfEntryPoint
+ .long __efistub_entry - _head // AddressOfEntryPoint
.long __efistub_stext_offset // BaseOfCode
extra_header_fields:
@@ -139,7 +147,7 @@ extra_header_fields:
.short 0 // MinorSubsystemVersion
.long 0 // Win32VersionValue
- .long _end - efi_head // SizeOfImage
+ .long _end - _head // SizeOfImage
// Everything before the kernel image is considered part of the header
.long __efistub_stext_offset // SizeOfHeaders
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h
index bc2abb8b1599..5f34770ba924 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h
@@ -22,46 +22,6 @@
#error This file should only be included in vmlinux.lds.S
#endif
-/*
- * There aren't any ELF relocations we can use to endian-swap values known only
- * at link time (e.g. the subtraction of two symbol addresses), so we must get
- * the linker to endian-swap certain values before emitting them.
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
-#define DATA_LE64(data) \
- ((((data) & 0x00000000000000ff) << 56) | \
- (((data) & 0x000000000000ff00) << 40) | \
- (((data) & 0x0000000000ff0000) << 24) | \
- (((data) & 0x00000000ff000000) << 8) | \
- (((data) & 0x000000ff00000000) >> 8) | \
- (((data) & 0x0000ff0000000000) >> 24) | \
- (((data) & 0x00ff000000000000) >> 40) | \
- (((data) & 0xff00000000000000) >> 56))
-#else
-#define DATA_LE64(data) ((data) & 0xffffffffffffffff)
-#endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
-#define __HEAD_FLAG_BE 1
-#else
-#define __HEAD_FLAG_BE 0
-#endif
-
-#define __HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE ((PAGE_SHIFT - 10) / 2)
-
-#define __HEAD_FLAGS ((__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0) | \
- (__HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE << 1))
-
-/*
- * These will output as part of the Image header, which should be little-endian
- * regardless of the endianness of the kernel. While constant values could be
- * endian swapped in head.S, all are done here for consistency.
- */
-#define HEAD_SYMBOLS \
- _kernel_size_le = DATA_LE64(_end - _text); \
- _kernel_offset_le = DATA_LE64(TEXT_OFFSET); \
- _kernel_flags_le = DATA_LE64(__HEAD_FLAGS);
-
#ifdef CONFIG_EFI
/*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 363c2f529951..69dfa376e843 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -171,8 +171,6 @@ SECTIONS
_end = .;
STABS_DEBUG
-
- HEAD_SYMBOLS
}
/*
diff --git a/scripts/arm64fixhdr.pl b/scripts/arm64fixhdr.pl
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..09895f412e5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/arm64fixhdr.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+# Copyright (C) 2015 Linaro Ltd <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+use strict;
+
+undef $/;
+
+my $image = "arch/arm64/boot/Image";
+$image = $ARGV[0] if ($ARGV[0]);
+
+open(my $INFILE, "<", $image) or die("Failed to open $image for reading\n");
+my ($c,$to,$is,$fl,$r2,$r3,$r4,$magic,$pe) = unpack("Q<7L<2", <$INFILE>);
+close($INFILE);
+
+exit 0 if ($magic == 0x644d5241);
+die sprintf("ERROR: incorrect magic 0x%x\n",$magic) if ($magic != 0x41524d64);
+
+open(my $OUTFILE, "+<", $image) or die("Failed to open $image for writing\n");
+print $OUTFILE pack("Q<Q>6L>2",$c,$to,$is,$fl,$r2,$r3,$r4,$magic,$pe);
+close($OUTFILE);
--
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