linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 29/36] x86/build: Enforce an empty .got.plt section

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Message-ID: <20200801021248.GB2700342@rani.riverdale.lan>
Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 22:12:48 -0400
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 29/36] x86/build: Enforce an empty .got.plt section

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 04:08:13PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> The .got.plt section should always be zero (or filled only with the
> linker-generated lazy dispatch entry). Enforce this with an assert and
> mark the section as NOLOAD. This is more sensitive than just blindly
> discarding the section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 0cc035cb15f1..7faffe7414d6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -414,8 +414,20 @@ SECTIONS
>  	ELF_DETAILS
>  
>  	DISCARDS
> -}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Make sure that the .got.plt is either completely empty or it
> +	 * contains only the lazy dispatch entries.
> +	 */
> +	.got.plt (NOLOAD) : { *(.got.plt) }
> +	ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 ||
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> +	       SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18,
> +#else
> +	       SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0xc,
> +#endif
> +	       "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
> +}
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

Is this actually needed? vmlinux is a position-dependent executable, and
it doesn't get linked with any shared libraries, so it should never have
a .got or .got.plt at all I think? Does it show up as an orphan without
this?