[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 38/43] arm64/module: set trampoline section flags regardless of CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Mon Sep 7 12:33:24 EDT 2020


From: Jessica Yu <jeyu at kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit e0328feda79d9681b3e3245e6e180295550c8ee9 ]

In the arm64 module linker script, the section .text.ftrace_trampoline
is specified unconditionally regardless of whether CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
is enabled (this is simply due to the limitation that module linker
scripts are not preprocessed like the vmlinux one).

Normally, for .plt and .text.ftrace_trampoline, the section flags
present in the module binary wouldn't matter since module_frob_arch_sections()
would assign them manually anyway. However, the arm64 module loader only
sets the section flags for .text.ftrace_trampoline when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y.
That's only become problematic recently due to a recent change in
binutils-2.35, where the .text.ftrace_trampoline section (along with the
.plt section) is now marked writable and executable (WAX).

We no longer allow writable and executable sections to be loaded due to
commit 5c3a7db0c7ec ("module: Harden STRICT_MODULE_RWX"), so this is
causing all modules linked with binutils-2.35 to be rejected under arm64.
Drop the IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) check in module_frob_arch_sections()
so that the section flags for .text.ftrace_trampoline get properly set to
SHF_EXECINSTR|SHF_ALLOC, without SHF_WRITE.

Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200831094651.GA16385@linux-8ccs
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901160016.3646-1-jeyu@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c
index b182442b87a32..426018ebb7007 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c
@@ -270,8 +270,7 @@ int module_frob_arch_sections(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
 			mod->arch.core.plt_shndx = i;
 		else if (!strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, ".init.plt"))
 			mod->arch.init.plt_shndx = i;
-		else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) &&
-			 !strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name,
+		else if (!strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name,
 				 ".text.ftrace_trampoline"))
 			tramp = sechdrs + i;
 		else if (sechdrs[i].sh_type == SHT_SYMTAB)
-- 
2.25.1




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