From 98f78525371b55ccd1c480207ce10296c72fa340 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 15:45:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations The compressed kernel is built with -fPIC/-fPIE so that it can run in any location a bootloader happens to put it. However, since ELF relocation processing is not happening (and all the relocation information has already been stripped at link time), none of the code can use data relocations (e.g. static assignments of pointers). This is already noted in a warning comment at the top of misc.c, but this adds an explicit check for the condition during the linking stage to block any such bugs from appearing. If this was in place with the earlier bug in pagetable.c, the build would fail like this: ... CC arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.o DATAREL arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux error: arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.o has data relocations! make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1 ... A clean build shows: ... CC arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.o DATAREL arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux LD arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux ... Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: H.J. Lu Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Yinghai Lu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464216334-17200-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile index f1356889204e5c..536ccfcc01c673 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -85,7 +85,25 @@ vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) += $(obj)/eboot.o $(obj)/efi_stub_$(BITS).o \ $(objtree)/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_EFI_MIXED) += $(obj)/efi_thunk_$(BITS).o +# The compressed kernel is built with -fPIC/-fPIE so that a boot loader +# can place it anywhere in memory and it will still run. However, since +# it is executed as-is without any ELF relocation processing performed +# (and has already had all relocation sections stripped from the binary), +# none of the code can use data relocations (e.g. static assignments of +# pointer values), since they will be meaningless at runtime. This check +# will refuse to link the vmlinux if any of these relocations are found. +quiet_cmd_check_data_rel = DATAREL $@ +define cmd_check_data_rel + for obj in $(filter %.o,$^); do \ + readelf -S $$obj | grep -qF .rel.local && { \ + echo "error: $$obj has data relocations!" >&2; \ + exit 1; \ + } || true; \ + done +endef + $(obj)/vmlinux: $(vmlinux-objs-y) FORCE + $(call if_changed,check_data_rel) $(call if_changed,ld) OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinux.bin := -R .comment -S