linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] x86/vdso: Add build salt to the vDSO

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Date:   Wed, 23 May 2018 16:55:52 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, mjw@...oraproject.org,
        "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        nickc@...hat.com, ccoutant@...il.com,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] x86/vdso: Add build salt to the vDSO

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:53 PM Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:

> Actually I remember now why this is necessary: there is not a simple way
> to encode a string into a linker file as it has to be spit out byte
> by byte.

I think you can use the "fill" thing to basically add any random data to a
section.

So you can do something like

        . = ALIGN(16);
        .salt : AT(ADDR(.salt) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
                LONG(0xffaa5500);
                . = ALIGN(16);
        } =0x01234567890abcdef

in the lds file, and you'll get a section that looks like this:

   [torvalds@i7 linux]$ objdump -h vmlinux -j .salt -s

   vmlinux:     file format elf64-x86-64

   Sections:
    Idx Name          Size      VMA               LMA               File off
  Algn
     15 .salt         00000010  ffffffff8432b000  000000000432b000  0352b000
  2**0
                      CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
    Contents of section .salt:
     ffffffff8432b000 0055aaff 00123456 7890abcd ef001234  .U....4Vx......4

Now whether that is sufficient for your needs, I dunno.

               Linus