[ARM64][GCC10] Kernel can't load any module due to RWX check

Qu Wenruo quwenruo.btrfs at gmx.com
Sat Aug 29 03:49:36 EDT 2020



On 2020/8/29 下午3:44, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently built a v5.9-rc2 kernel, it boots fine, but unable to load any
> kernel module.
> 
> After some debugging, it shows that it's due to RWX check failure:
> 
>   load_module: start
>   module_enforce_rwx_sections: index=22 sh_flags=0x7 shf_wx=0x5
>   layout_and_allocate: module enforce rwx sections
>   load_module: failed to alloc layout and allocate
>   load_module: end
> 
> Futhermore, it's unable to disable the RWX check through "make
> menuconfig", since the ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX is no for arm64.
> 
> The offending section 22 looks like this: (the kernel reports 38
> sectors, while we only have 37, thus near-by sections are also shown here).
> 
>  20 .data         00000aa0  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00086d08
>  2**3
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
>  21 __bug_table   000000cc  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  000877a8
>  2**2
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
>  22 __dyndbg      0000b9b8  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00087878
>  2**3
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
>  23 .data.unlikely 00000012  0000000000000000  0000000000000000
> 00093230  2**0
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
> 
> I'm using GCC 10.2.0, could this be the cause?

I should check the git log, the module_enforce_rwx_sections() is just
recently added by commit 5c3a7db0c7ec ("module: Harden STRICT_MODULE_RWX").

Hi Peter, any idea how could this commit causing a regression on arm64
but not on x86_64?

Thanks,
Qu

> 
> Thanks,
> Qu
> 
> 
> 

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