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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdk3xPjqidz=wmxuRjkSR0Q51Lygg1kkC1tn8vZWWc9NOA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 09:40:56 -0700
From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vmlinux.lds.h: Handle clang's module.{c,d}tor sections
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 7:33 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> A recent change in LLVM causes module_{c,d}tor sections to appear when
> CONFIG_K{A,C}SAN are enabled, which results in orphan section warnings
> because these are not handled anywhere:
>
> ld.lld: warning: arch/x86/pci/built-in.a(legacy.o):(.text.asan.module_ctor) is being placed in '.text.asan.module_ctor'
> ld.lld: warning: arch/x86/pci/built-in.a(legacy.o):(.text.asan.module_dtor) is being placed in '.text.asan.module_dtor'
> ld.lld: warning: arch/x86/pci/built-in.a(legacy.o):(.text.tsan.module_ctor) is being placed in '.text.tsan.module_ctor'
>
> Fangrui explains: "the function asan.module_ctor has the SHF_GNU_RETAIN
> flag, so it is in a separate section even with -fno-function-sections
> (default)".
>
> Place them in the TEXT_TEXT section so that these technologies continue
> to work with the newer compiler versions. All of the KASAN and KCSAN
> KUnit tests continue to pass after this change.
>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1432
> Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/7b789562244ee941b7bf2cefeb3fc08a59a01865
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> * Fix inclusion of .text.tsan.* (Nick)
>
> * Drop .text.asan as it does not exist plus it would be handled by a
> different line (Fangrui)
>
> * Add Fangrui's explanation about why the LLVM commit caused these
> sections to appear.
>
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> index 17325416e2de..62669b36a772 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> @@ -586,6 +586,7 @@
> NOINSTR_TEXT \
> *(.text..refcount) \
> *(.ref.text) \
> + *(.text.asan.* .text.tsan.*) \
> TEXT_CFI_JT \
> MEM_KEEP(init.text*) \
> MEM_KEEP(exit.text*) \
>
> base-commit: 4669e13cd67f8532be12815ed3d37e775a9bdc16
> --
> 2.32.0.264.g75ae10bc75
>
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
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