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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:27:17 +0100
From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: Extract .note.gnu.property from an ELF file
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:14:07AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:10 AM Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com> wrote:
[...]
> > A couple of questions before I look in more detail:
> >
> > 1) Can we rely on PT_GNU_PROPERTY being present in the phdrs to describe
> > the NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0 note? If so, we can avoid trying to parse
> > irrelevant PT_NOTE segments.
> >
> >
> > 2) Are there standard types for things like the program property header?
> > If not, can we add something in elf.h? We should try to coordinate with
> > libc on that. Something like
> >
>
> Where did PT_GNU_PROPERTY come from? Are there actual docs for it?
> Can someone here tell us what the actual semantics of this new ELF
> thingy are? From some searching, it seems like it's kind of an ELF
> note but kind of not. An actual description would be fantastic.
https://github.com/hjl-tools/linux-abi/wiki/linux-abi-draft.pdf
I don't know _when_ it was added, and the description is minimal, but
it's there.
(I'd say it's fairly obvious how it should be used, but it could do with
some clarification...)
> Also, I don't think there's any actual requirement that the upstream
> kernel recognize existing CET-enabled RHEL 8 binaries as being
> CET-enabled. I tend to think that RHEL 8 jumped the gun here. While
> the upstream kernel should make some reasonble effort to make sure
> that RHEL 8 binaries will continue to run, I don't see why we need to
> go out of our way to keep the full set of mitigations available for
> binaries that were developed against a non-upstream kernel.
If that's an accpetable approach, it should certainly make our life
easier.
> In fact, if we handle the legacy bitmap differently from RHEL 8, we
> may *have* to make sure that we don't recognize existing RHEL 8
> binaries as CET-enabled.
Can't comment on that. If the existing RHEL 8 binaries strictly don't
have the PT_GNU_PROPERTY phdr, then this might serve a dual purpose ...
otherwise, x86 might need some additional annotation for new binaries.
I'll leave it for others to comment.
Cheers
---Dave
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