linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lkdtm: Keep the rodata test from causing retbleed WARNINGS

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Message-ID: <202207201311.775CB068@keescook>
Date:   Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:13:05 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
        Johannes Wikner <kwikner@...z.ch>,
        Alyssa Milburn <alyssa.milburn@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>,
        Joao Moreira <joao.moreira@...el.com>,
        Joseph Nuzman <joseph.nuzman@...el.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lkdtm: Keep the rodata test from causing retbleed
 WARNINGS

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 03:55:07PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> The rodata test checks if executable code in the .rodata section will not
> execute. But this also means that fix ups that the return hook code does
> will not be able to change this code at boot up, and this causes a
> warning.
> 
> By removing the RETHOOK_CFLAGS from the compilation of the rodata function
> makes it hidden from objtool and it will not add its return hook into the
> .returns section. This keeps the fix up code from trying and failing on
> modifying the rodata return call.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220720125736.48164a14@gandalf.local.home/
> 
> Fixes: ee88d363d1561 ("x86,static_call: Use alternative RET encoding")
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Yeah, this matches a portion of what was suggested:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220713213133.455599-1-keescook@chromium.org/

But it still needed objtool fixes:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220715032333.neywlazczbb35w3b@treble/

Perhaps objtool has already had patches landed for this? (Otherwise the
patch you suggested would fail to build on x86 with rethunk support.)

-Kees

> ---
> 
>  [ Note, my tests are still running with this, but it passed the test that
>    caused the failure, so I decided to post this now. ]
> 
>  arch/x86/Makefile           | 1 +
>  drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
> index 1f40dad30d50..2dd61d8594f4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ endif
>  ifdef CONFIG_RETHUNK
>  RETHUNK_CFLAGS		:= -mfunction-return=thunk-extern
>  RETPOLINE_CFLAGS	+= $(RETHUNK_CFLAGS)
> +export RETHUNK_CFLAGS
>  endif
>  
>  export RETPOLINE_CFLAGS
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile
> index 2e0aa74ac185..fd96ac1617f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ lkdtm-$(CONFIG_PPC_64S_HASH_MMU)	+= powerpc.o
>  KASAN_SANITIZE_rodata.o		:= n
>  KASAN_SANITIZE_stackleak.o	:= n
>  KCOV_INSTRUMENT_rodata.o	:= n
> -CFLAGS_REMOVE_rodata.o		+= $(CC_FLAGS_LTO)
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_rodata.o		+= $(CC_FLAGS_LTO) $(RETHUNK_CFLAGS)
>  
>  OBJCOPYFLAGS :=
>  OBJCOPYFLAGS_rodata_objcopy.o	:= \
> -- 
> 2.35.1
> 

-- 
Kees Cook