linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 017/212] x86/build/lto: Fix truncated .bss with -fdata-sections

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Message-Id: <20200820091603.210193271@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:19:50 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 017/212] x86/build/lto: Fix truncated .bss with -fdata-sections

From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>

[ Upstream commit 6a03469a1edc94da52b65478f1e00837add869a3 ]

With CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y, we compile the kernel with
-fdata-sections, which also splits the .bss section.

The new section, with a new .bss.* name, which pattern gets missed by the
main x86 linker script which only expects the '.bss' name. This results
in the discarding of the second part and a too small, truncated .bss
section and an unhappy, non-working kernel.

Use the common BSS_MAIN macro in the linker script to properly capture
and merge all the generated BSS sections.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190415164956.124067-1-samitolvanen@google.com
[ Extended the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 097268f85e4ee..0df44e4fe7cb1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	.bss : AT(ADDR(.bss) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 		__bss_start = .;
 		*(.bss..page_aligned)
-		*(.bss)
+		*(BSS_MAIN)
 		. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 		__bss_stop = .;
 	}
-- 
2.25.1