linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] efi/libstub: Remove .note.gnu.property

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:26:46 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] efi/libstub: Remove .note.gnu.property

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 02:48:55PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 12:26:47PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 12:46:32PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 12:44, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > > For the kernel Image, how do we remove these sections? The objcopy flags
> > > > in arch/arm64/boot/Makefile look both insufficient and out of date. My
> > > > vmlinux ends up with both a ".notes" and a ".init.note.gnu.property"
> > > > segment.
> > > 
> > > The latter is the fault of the libstub make rules, that prepend .init
> > > to all section names.
> > 
> > Hmm. I tried adding -mbranch-protection=none to arm64 cflags for the stub,
> > but I still see this note in vmlinux. It looks like it comes in via the
> > stub copy of lib-ctype.o, but I don't know why that would force the
> > note. The cflags look ok to me [1] and I confirmed that the note is
> > being generated by the compiler.
> > 
> > > I'm not sure if there is a point to having PAC and/or BTI in the EFI
> > > stub, given that it runs under the control of the firmware, with its
> > > memory mappings and PAC configuration etc.
> > 
> > Agreed, I just can't figure out how to get rid of the note.
> 
> Because this section is generated by the linker itself I think you might
> have to send it to /DISCARD/ in the link, or strip it explicitly after
> linking.

Right, but why is the linker generating that section in the first place? I'm
compiling with -mbranch-protection=none and all the other objects linked
into the stub do not have the section.

I wonder if it's because lib/ctype.c doesn't have any executable code...

Will