[PATCH] arm64/vdso: Discard .note.gnu.property sections in vDSO
Bill Wendling
morbo at google.com
Fri Apr 23 21:51:59 BST 2021
The arm64 assembler in binutils 2.32 and above generates a program
property note in a note section, .note.gnu.property, to encode used x86
ISAs and features. But the kernel linker script only contains a single
NOTE segment:
PHDRS
{
text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5) FILEHDR PHDRS; /* PF_R|PF_X */
dynamic PT_DYNAMIC FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
}
The NOTE segment generated by the vDSO linker script is aligned to 4 bytes.
But the .note.gnu.property section must be aligned to 8 bytes on arm64.
$ readelf -n vdso64.so
Displaying notes found in: .note
Owner Data size Description
Linux 0x00000004 Unknown note type: (0x00000000)
description data: 06 00 00 00
readelf: Warning: note with invalid namesz and/or descsz found at offset 0x20
readelf: Warning: type: 0x78, namesize: 0x00000100, descsize: 0x756e694c, alignment: 8
Since the note.gnu.property section in the vDSO is not checked by the
dynamic linker, discard the .note.gnu.property sections in the vDSO.
Similar to commit 4caffe6a28d31 ("x86/vdso: Discard .note.gnu.property
sections in vDSO"), but for arm64.
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo at google.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
index 61dbb4c838ef..a5e61e09ea92 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ SECTIONS
.gnu.version_d : { *(.gnu.version_d) }
.gnu.version_r : { *(.gnu.version_r) }
+ /*
+ * Discard .note.gnu.property sections which are unused and have
+ * different alignment requirement from vDSO note sections.
+ */
+ /DISCARD/ : {
+ *(.note.GNU-stack .note.gnu.property)
+ }
.note : { *(.note.*) } :text :note
. = ALIGN(16);
@@ -48,7 +55,6 @@ SECTIONS
PROVIDE(end = .);
/DISCARD/ : {
- *(.note.GNU-stack)
*(.data .data.* .gnu.linkonce.d.* .sdata*)
*(.bss .sbss .dynbss .dynsbss)
*(.eh_frame .eh_frame_hdr)
--
2.31.1.498.g6c1eba8ee3d-goog
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