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Message-Id: <20200224232129.597160-2-nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Date:   Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:21:28 -0500
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>, Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] arch/x86: Use -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to suppress .eh_frame sections

While discussing a patch to discard .eh_frame from the compressed
vmlinux using the linker script, Fangrui Song pointed out [1] that these
sections shouldn't exist in the first place because arch/x86/Makefile
uses -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables.

It turns out this is because the Makefiles used to build the compressed
kernel redefine KBUILD_CFLAGS, dropping this flag.

Add the flag to the Makefile for the compressed kernel, as well as the
EFI stub Makefile to fix this.

Also add the flag to boot/Makefile and realmode/rm/Makefile so that the
kernel's boot code (boot/setup.elf) and realmode trampoline
(realmode/rm/realmode.elf) won't be compiled with .eh_frame sections,
since their linker scripts also just discard it.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Suggested-By: Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200222185806.ywnqhfqmy67akfsa@google.com/
---
 arch/x86/boot/Makefile                | 1 +
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile     | 1 +
 arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile         | 1 +
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 3 ++-
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
index 012b82fc8617..24f011e0adf1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ clean-files += cpustr.h
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	:= $(REALMODE_CFLAGS) -D_SETUP
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	:= $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 GCOV_PROFILE := n
 UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 26050ae0b27e..c33111341325 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 
 KBUILD_AFLAGS  := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
 GCOV_PROFILE := n
diff --git a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
index 99b6332ba540..b11ec5d8f8ac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
@@ -71,5 +71,6 @@ $(obj)/realmode.relocs: $(obj)/realmode.elf FORCE
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	:= $(REALMODE_CFLAGS) -D_SETUP -D_WAKEUP \
 		   -I$(srctree)/arch/x86/boot
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	:= $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 GCOV_PROFILE := n
 UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
index 98a81576213d..a1140c4ee478 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_X86)		+= -m$(BITS) -D__KERNEL__ -O2 \
 				   -mno-mmx -mno-sse -fshort-wchar \
 				   -Wno-pointer-sign \
 				   $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member) \
-				   $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu)
+				   $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu) \
+				   -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 
 # arm64 uses the full KBUILD_CFLAGS so it's necessary to explicitly
 # disable the stackleak plugin
-- 
2.24.1