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<title>arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T07:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-02T02:07:00+00:00</published>
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commit 99cb0d917ffa1ab628bb67364ca9b162c07699b1 upstream.

Dennis Gilmore reports that the BuildID is missing in the arm64 vmlinux
since commit 994b7ac1697b ("arm64: remove special treatment for the
link order of head.o").

The issue is that the type of .notes section, which contains the BuildID,
changed from NOTES to PROGBITS.

Ard Biesheuvel figured out that whichever object gets linked first gets
to decide the type of a section. The PROGBITS type is the result of the
compiler emitting .note.GNU-stack as PROGBITS rather than NOTE.

While Ard provided a fix for arm64, I want to fix this globally because
the same issue is happening on riscv since commit 2348e6bf4421 ("riscv:
remove special treatment for the link order of head.o"). This problem
will happen in general for other architectures if they start to drop
unneeded entries from scripts/head-object-list.txt.

Discard .note.GNU-stack in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAABkxwuQoz1CTbyb57n0ZX65eSYiTonFCU8-LCQc=74D=xE=rA@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 994b7ac1697b ("arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o")
Fixes: 2348e6bf4421 ("riscv: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o")
Reported-by: Dennis Gilmore &lt;dennis@ausil.us&gt;
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
[Tom: stable backport 5.15.y, 5.10.y, 5.4.y]

Though the above "Fixes:" commits are not in this kernel, the conditions
which lead to a missing Build ID in arm64 vmlinux are similar.

Evidence points to these conditions:
1. ld version &gt; 2.36 (exact binutils commit documented in a494398bde27)
2. first object which gets linked (head.o) has a PROGBITS .note.GNU-stack segment

These conditions can be observed when:
- 5.15.60+ OR 5.10.136+ OR 5.4.210+
- AND ld version &gt; 2.36
- AND arch=arm64
- AND CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y

There are notable differences in the vmlinux elf files produced
before(bad) and after(good) applying this series.

Good: p_type:PT_NOTE segment exists.
 Bad: p_type:PT_NOTE segment is missing.

Good: sh_name_str:.notes section has sh_type:SHT_NOTE
 Bad: sh_name_str:.notes section has sh_type:SHT_PROGBITS

`readelf -n` (as of v2.40) searches for Build Id
by processing only the very first note in sh_type:SHT_NOTE sections.

This was previously bisected to the stable backport of 0d362be5b142.
Follow-up experiments were discussed here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221221235413.xaisboqmr7dkqwn6@oracle.com/
which strongly hints at condition 2.
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 99cb0d917ffa1ab628bb67364ca9b162c07699b1 upstream.

Dennis Gilmore reports that the BuildID is missing in the arm64 vmlinux
since commit 994b7ac1697b ("arm64: remove special treatment for the
link order of head.o").

The issue is that the type of .notes section, which contains the BuildID,
changed from NOTES to PROGBITS.

Ard Biesheuvel figured out that whichever object gets linked first gets
to decide the type of a section. The PROGBITS type is the result of the
compiler emitting .note.GNU-stack as PROGBITS rather than NOTE.

While Ard provided a fix for arm64, I want to fix this globally because
the same issue is happening on riscv since commit 2348e6bf4421 ("riscv:
remove special treatment for the link order of head.o"). This problem
will happen in general for other architectures if they start to drop
unneeded entries from scripts/head-object-list.txt.

Discard .note.GNU-stack in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAABkxwuQoz1CTbyb57n0ZX65eSYiTonFCU8-LCQc=74D=xE=rA@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 994b7ac1697b ("arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o")
Fixes: 2348e6bf4421 ("riscv: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o")
Reported-by: Dennis Gilmore &lt;dennis@ausil.us&gt;
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
[Tom: stable backport 5.15.y, 5.10.y, 5.4.y]

Though the above "Fixes:" commits are not in this kernel, the conditions
which lead to a missing Build ID in arm64 vmlinux are similar.

Evidence points to these conditions:
1. ld version &gt; 2.36 (exact binutils commit documented in a494398bde27)
2. first object which gets linked (head.o) has a PROGBITS .note.GNU-stack segment

These conditions can be observed when:
- 5.15.60+ OR 5.10.136+ OR 5.4.210+
- AND ld version &gt; 2.36
- AND arch=arm64
- AND CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y

There are notable differences in the vmlinux elf files produced
before(bad) and after(good) applying this series.

Good: p_type:PT_NOTE segment exists.
 Bad: p_type:PT_NOTE segment is missing.

Good: sh_name_str:.notes section has sh_type:SHT_NOTE
 Bad: sh_name_str:.notes section has sh_type:SHT_PROGBITS

`readelf -n` (as of v2.40) searches for Build Id
by processing only the very first note in sh_type:SHT_NOTE sections.

This was previously bisected to the stable backport of 0d362be5b142.
Follow-up experiments were discussed here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221221235413.xaisboqmr7dkqwn6@oracle.com/
which strongly hints at condition 2.
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, vmlinux.lds: Add RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to generic DISCARDS</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T07:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H.J. Lu</name>
<email>hjl.tools@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-02T02:06:59+00:00</published>
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commit 84d5f77fc2ee4e010c2c037750e32f06e55224b0 upstream.

In the x86 kernel, .exit.text and .exit.data sections are discarded at
runtime, not by the linker. Add RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to generic DISCARDS
and define it in the x86 kernel linker script to keep them.

The sections are added before the DISCARD directive so document here
only the situation explicitly as this change doesn't have any effect on
the generated kernel. Also, other architectures like ARM64 will use it
too so generalize the approach with the RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT define.

 [ bp: Massage and extend commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200326193021.255002-1-hjl.tools@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
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commit 84d5f77fc2ee4e010c2c037750e32f06e55224b0 upstream.

In the x86 kernel, .exit.text and .exit.data sections are discarded at
runtime, not by the linker. Add RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to generic DISCARDS
and define it in the x86 kernel linker script to keep them.

The sections are added before the DISCARD directive so document here
only the situation explicitly as this change doesn't have any effect on
the generated kernel. Also, other architectures like ARM64 will use it
too so generalize the approach with the RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT define.

 [ bp: Massage and extend commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200326193021.255002-1-hjl.tools@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Fix placement of '.data..decrypted' section</title>
<updated>2022-11-25T16:42:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-08T17:49:34+00:00</published>
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commit 000f8870a47bdc36730357883b6aef42bced91ee upstream.

Commit d4c639990036 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid orphan section with !SMP")
fixed an orphan section warning by adding the '.data..decrypted' section
to the linker script under the PERCPU_DECRYPTED_SECTION define but that
placement introduced a panic with !SMP, as the percpu sections are not
instantiated with that configuration so attempting to access variables
defined with DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED() will result in a page fault.

Move the '.data..decrypted' section to the DATA_MAIN define so that the
variables in it are properly instantiated at boot time with
CONFIG_SMP=n.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d4c639990036 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid orphan section with !SMP")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cbbd3548-880c-d2ca-1b67-5bb93b291d5f@huawei.com/
Debugged-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Zhao Wenhui &lt;zhaowenhui8@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: xiafukun &lt;xiafukun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221108174934.3384275-1-nathan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 000f8870a47bdc36730357883b6aef42bced91ee upstream.

Commit d4c639990036 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid orphan section with !SMP")
fixed an orphan section warning by adding the '.data..decrypted' section
to the linker script under the PERCPU_DECRYPTED_SECTION define but that
placement introduced a panic with !SMP, as the percpu sections are not
instantiated with that configuration so attempting to access variables
defined with DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED() will result in a page fault.

Move the '.data..decrypted' section to the DATA_MAIN define so that the
variables in it are properly instantiated at boot time with
CONFIG_SMP=n.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d4c639990036 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid orphan section with !SMP")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cbbd3548-880c-d2ca-1b67-5bb93b291d5f@huawei.com/
Debugged-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Zhao Wenhui &lt;zhaowenhui8@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: xiafukun &lt;xiafukun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221108174934.3384275-1-nathan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module/ftrace: handle patchable-function-entry</title>
<updated>2022-02-23T10:59:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-16T17:17:11+00:00</published>
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commit a1326b17ac03a9012cb3d01e434aacb4d67a416c upstream.

When using patchable-function-entry, the compiler will record the
callsites into a section named "__patchable_function_entries" rather
than "__mcount_loc". Let's abstract this difference behind a new
FTRACE_CALLSITE_SECTION, so that architectures don't have to handle this
explicitly (e.g. with custom module linker scripts).

As parisc currently handles this explicitly, it is fixed up accordingly,
with its custom linker script removed. Since FTRACE_CALLSITE_SECTION is
only defined when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is selected, the parisc module loading
code is updated to only use the definition in that case. When
DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not selected, modules shouldn't have this section, so
this removes some redundant work in that case.

To make sure that this is keep up-to-date for modules and the main
kernel, a comment is added to vmlinux.lds.h, with the existing ifdeffery
simplified for legibility.

I built parisc generic-{32,64}bit_defconfig with DYNAMIC_FTRACE enabled,
and verified that the section made it into the .ko files for modules.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap &lt;amit.kachhap@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Tested-by: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a1326b17ac03a9012cb3d01e434aacb4d67a416c upstream.

When using patchable-function-entry, the compiler will record the
callsites into a section named "__patchable_function_entries" rather
than "__mcount_loc". Let's abstract this difference behind a new
FTRACE_CALLSITE_SECTION, so that architectures don't have to handle this
explicitly (e.g. with custom module linker scripts).

As parisc currently handles this explicitly, it is fixed up accordingly,
with its custom linker script removed. Since FTRACE_CALLSITE_SECTION is
only defined when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is selected, the parisc module loading
code is updated to only use the definition in that case. When
DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not selected, modules shouldn't have this section, so
this removes some redundant work in that case.

To make sure that this is keep up-to-date for modules and the main
kernel, a comment is added to vmlinux.lds.h, with the existing ifdeffery
simplified for legibility.

I built parisc generic-{32,64}bit_defconfig with DYNAMIC_FTRACE enabled,
and verified that the section made it into the .ko files for modules.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap &lt;amit.kachhap@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Tested-by: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Handle clang's module.{c,d}tor sections</title>
<updated>2021-08-18T06:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-31T02:31:08+00:00</published>
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commit 848378812e40152abe9b9baf58ce2004f76fb988 upstream.

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@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1432
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/7b789562244ee941b7bf2cefeb3fc08a59a01865
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210731023107.1932981-1-nathan@kernel.org
[nc: Resolve conflict due to lack of cf68fffb66d60]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 848378812e40152abe9b9baf58ce2004f76fb988 upstream.

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@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1432
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/7b789562244ee941b7bf2cefeb3fc08a59a01865
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210731023107.1932981-1-nathan@kernel.org
[nc: Resolve conflict due to lack of cf68fffb66d60]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid orphan section with !SMP</title>
<updated>2021-06-16T09:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-06T00:14:11+00:00</published>
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commit d4c6399900364facd84c9e35ce1540b6046c345f upstream.

With x86_64_defconfig and the following configs, there is an orphan
section warning:

CONFIG_SMP=n
CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y
CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST=y
CONFIG_KVM=y
CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y

ld: warning: orphan section `.data..decrypted' from `arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.o' being placed in section `.data..decrypted'
ld: warning: orphan section `.data..decrypted' from `arch/x86/kernel/kvm.o' being placed in section `.data..decrypted'

These sections are created with DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED, which
ultimately turns into __PCPU_ATTRS, which in turn has a section
attribute with a value of PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION + the section name. When
CONFIG_SMP is not set, the base section is .data and that is not
currently handled in any linker script.

Add .data..decrypted to PERCPU_DECRYPTED_SECTION, which is included in
PERCPU_INPUT -&gt; PERCPU_SECTION, which is include in the x86 linker
script when either CONFIG_X86_64 or CONFIG_SMP is unset, taking care of
the warning.

Fixes: ac26963a1175 ("percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1360
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt; # build
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506001410.1026691-1-nathan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit d4c6399900364facd84c9e35ce1540b6046c345f upstream.

With x86_64_defconfig and the following configs, there is an orphan
section warning:

CONFIG_SMP=n
CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y
CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST=y
CONFIG_KVM=y
CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y

ld: warning: orphan section `.data..decrypted' from `arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.o' being placed in section `.data..decrypted'
ld: warning: orphan section `.data..decrypted' from `arch/x86/kernel/kvm.o' being placed in section `.data..decrypted'

These sections are created with DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED, which
ultimately turns into __PCPU_ATTRS, which in turn has a section
attribute with a value of PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION + the section name. When
CONFIG_SMP is not set, the base section is .data and that is not
currently handled in any linker script.

Add .data..decrypted to PERCPU_DECRYPTED_SECTION, which is included in
PERCPU_INPUT -&gt; PERCPU_SECTION, which is include in the x86 linker
script when either CONFIG_X86_64 or CONFIG_SMP is unset, taking care of
the warning.

Fixes: ac26963a1175 ("percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1360
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt; # build
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506001410.1026691-1-nathan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: add DWARF v5 sections</title>
<updated>2021-03-04T09:26:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-05T20:22:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0a6565762f2783604ccc9c3d7d237d153724b307'/>
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commit 3c4fa46b30c551b1df2fb1574a684f68bc22067c upstream.

We expect toolchains to produce these new debug info sections as part of
DWARF v5. Add explicit placements to prevent the linker warnings from
--orphan-section=warn.

Compilers may produce such sections with explicit -gdwarf-5, or based on
the implicit default version of DWARF when -g is used via DEBUG_INFO.
This implicit default changes over time, and has changed to DWARF v5
with GCC 11.

.debug_sup was mentioned in review, but without compilers producing it
today, let's wait to add it until it becomes necessary.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922707
Reported-by: Chris Murphy &lt;lists@colorremedies.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Wielaard &lt;mark@klomp.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3c4fa46b30c551b1df2fb1574a684f68bc22067c upstream.

We expect toolchains to produce these new debug info sections as part of
DWARF v5. Add explicit placements to prevent the linker warnings from
--orphan-section=warn.

Compilers may produce such sections with explicit -gdwarf-5, or based on
the implicit default version of DWARF when -g is used via DEBUG_INFO.
This implicit default changes over time, and has changed to DWARF v5
with GCC 11.

.debug_sup was mentioned in review, but without compilers producing it
today, let's wait to add it until it becomes necessary.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922707
Reported-by: Chris Murphy &lt;lists@colorremedies.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Wielaard &lt;mark@klomp.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: align .builtin_fw to 8</title>
<updated>2021-02-17T09:35:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fangrui Song</name>
<email>maskray@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-09T21:42:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=107cf5eede74c0b927a3154799bf71dd51862575'/>
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[ Upstream commit 793f49a87aae24e5bcf92ad98d764153fc936570 ]

arm64 references the start address of .builtin_fw (__start_builtin_fw)
with a pair of R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21/R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC
relocations.  The compiler is allowed to emit the
R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation because struct builtin_fw in
include/linux/firmware.h is 8-byte aligned.

The R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation requires the address to be a
multiple of 8, which may not be the case if .builtin_fw is empty.
Unconditionally align .builtin_fw to fix the linker error.  32-bit
architectures could use ALIGN(4) but that would add unnecessary
complexity, so just use ALIGN(8).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201208054646.2913063-1-maskray@google.com
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1204
Fixes: 5658c76 ("firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image")
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 793f49a87aae24e5bcf92ad98d764153fc936570 ]

arm64 references the start address of .builtin_fw (__start_builtin_fw)
with a pair of R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21/R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC
relocations.  The compiler is allowed to emit the
R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation because struct builtin_fw in
include/linux/firmware.h is 8-byte aligned.

The R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation requires the address to be a
multiple of 8, which may not be the case if .builtin_fw is empty.
Unconditionally align .builtin_fw to fix the linker error.  32-bit
architectures could use ALIGN(4) but that would add unnecessary
complexity, so just use ALIGN(8).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201208054646.2913063-1-maskray@google.com
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1204
Fixes: 5658c76 ("firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image")
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation</title>
<updated>2021-02-17T09:35:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-09T21:47:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4f5416710e13eb4e1587f6c38e92e9134cf5f480'/>
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[ Upstream commit 6553896666433e7efec589838b400a2a652b3ffa ]

Some code pathes, especially the low level entry code, must be protected
against instrumentation for various reasons:

 - Low level entry code can be a fragile beast, especially on x86.

 - With NO_HZ_FULL RCU state needs to be established before using it.

Having a dedicated section for such code allows to validate with tooling
that no unsafe functions are invoked.

Add the .noinstr.text section and the noinstr attribute to mark
functions. noinstr implies notrace. Kprobes will gain a section check
later.

Provide also a set of markers: instrumentation_begin()/end()

These are used to mark code inside a noinstr function which calls
into regular instrumentable text section as safe.

The instrumentation markers are only active when CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY is
enabled as the end marker emits a NOP to prevent the compiler from merging
the annotation points. This means the objtool verification requires a
kernel compiled with this option.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134100.075416272@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6553896666433e7efec589838b400a2a652b3ffa ]

Some code pathes, especially the low level entry code, must be protected
against instrumentation for various reasons:

 - Low level entry code can be a fragile beast, especially on x86.

 - With NO_HZ_FULL RCU state needs to be established before using it.

Having a dedicated section for such code allows to validate with tooling
that no unsafe functions are invoked.

Add the .noinstr.text section and the noinstr attribute to mark
functions. noinstr implies notrace. Kprobes will gain a section check
later.

Provide also a set of markers: instrumentation_begin()/end()

These are used to mark code inside a noinstr function which calls
into regular instrumentable text section as safe.

The instrumentation markers are only active when CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY is
enabled as the end marker emits a NOP to prevent the compiler from merging
the annotation points. This means the objtool verification requires a
kernel compiled with this option.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134100.075416272@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Add PGO and AutoFDO input sections</title>
<updated>2021-01-17T13:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-21T19:42:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=87ea51c90280388f71255121bb29e9f6a531c754'/>
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commit eff8728fe69880d3f7983bec3fb6cea4c306261f upstream.

Basically, consider .text.{hot|unlikely|unknown}.* part of .text, too.

When compiling with profiling information (collected via PGO
instrumentations or AutoFDO sampling), Clang will separate code into
.text.hot, .text.unlikely, or .text.unknown sections based on profiling
information. After D79600 (clang-11), these sections will have a
trailing `.` suffix, ie.  .text.hot., .text.unlikely., .text.unknown..

When using -ffunction-sections together with profiling infomation,
either explicitly (FGKASLR) or implicitly (LTO), code may be placed in
sections following the convention:
.text.hot.&lt;foo&gt;, .text.unlikely.&lt;bar&gt;, .text.unknown.&lt;baz&gt;
where &lt;foo&gt;, &lt;bar&gt;, and &lt;baz&gt; are functions.  (This produces one section
per function; we generally try to merge these all back via linker script
so that we don't have 50k sections).

For the above cases, we need to teach our linker scripts that such
sections might exist and that we'd explicitly like them grouped
together, otherwise we can wind up with code outside of the
_stext/_etext boundaries that might not be mapped properly for some
architectures, resulting in boot failures.

If the linker script is not told about possible input sections, then
where the section is placed as output is a heuristic-laiden mess that's
non-portable between linkers (ie. BFD and LLD), and has resulted in many
hard to debug bugs.  Kees Cook is working on cleaning this up by adding
--orphan-handling=warn linker flag used in ARCH=powerpc to additional
architectures. In the case of linker scripts, borrowing from the Zen of
Python: explicit is better than implicit.

Also, ld.bfd's internal linker script considers .text.hot AND
.text.hot.* to be part of .text, as well as .text.unlikely and
.text.unlikely.*. I didn't see support for .text.unknown.*, and didn't
see Clang producing such code in our kernel builds, but I see code in
LLVM that can produce such section names if profiling information is
missing. That may point to a larger issue with generating or collecting
profiles, but I would much rather be safe and explicit than have to
debug yet another issue related to orphan section placement.

Reported-by: Jian Cai &lt;jiancai@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Fāng-ruì Sòng &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Luis Lozano &lt;llozano@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Manoj Gupta &lt;manojgupta@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=add44f8d5c5c05e08b11e033127a744d61c26aee
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=1de778ed23ce7492c523d5850c6c6dbb34152655
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79600
Link: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1084760
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-7-keescook@chromium.org

Debugged-by: Luis Lozano &lt;llozano@google.com&gt;
[nc: Resolve small conflict due to lack of NOINSTR_TEXT]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit eff8728fe69880d3f7983bec3fb6cea4c306261f upstream.

Basically, consider .text.{hot|unlikely|unknown}.* part of .text, too.

When compiling with profiling information (collected via PGO
instrumentations or AutoFDO sampling), Clang will separate code into
.text.hot, .text.unlikely, or .text.unknown sections based on profiling
information. After D79600 (clang-11), these sections will have a
trailing `.` suffix, ie.  .text.hot., .text.unlikely., .text.unknown..

When using -ffunction-sections together with profiling infomation,
either explicitly (FGKASLR) or implicitly (LTO), code may be placed in
sections following the convention:
.text.hot.&lt;foo&gt;, .text.unlikely.&lt;bar&gt;, .text.unknown.&lt;baz&gt;
where &lt;foo&gt;, &lt;bar&gt;, and &lt;baz&gt; are functions.  (This produces one section
per function; we generally try to merge these all back via linker script
so that we don't have 50k sections).

For the above cases, we need to teach our linker scripts that such
sections might exist and that we'd explicitly like them grouped
together, otherwise we can wind up with code outside of the
_stext/_etext boundaries that might not be mapped properly for some
architectures, resulting in boot failures.

If the linker script is not told about possible input sections, then
where the section is placed as output is a heuristic-laiden mess that's
non-portable between linkers (ie. BFD and LLD), and has resulted in many
hard to debug bugs.  Kees Cook is working on cleaning this up by adding
--orphan-handling=warn linker flag used in ARCH=powerpc to additional
architectures. In the case of linker scripts, borrowing from the Zen of
Python: explicit is better than implicit.

Also, ld.bfd's internal linker script considers .text.hot AND
.text.hot.* to be part of .text, as well as .text.unlikely and
.text.unlikely.*. I didn't see support for .text.unknown.*, and didn't
see Clang producing such code in our kernel builds, but I see code in
LLVM that can produce such section names if profiling information is
missing. That may point to a larger issue with generating or collecting
profiles, but I would much rather be safe and explicit than have to
debug yet another issue related to orphan section placement.

Reported-by: Jian Cai &lt;jiancai@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Fāng-ruì Sòng &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Luis Lozano &lt;llozano@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Manoj Gupta &lt;manojgupta@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=add44f8d5c5c05e08b11e033127a744d61c26aee
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=1de778ed23ce7492c523d5850c6c6dbb34152655
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79600
Link: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1084760
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-7-keescook@chromium.org

Debugged-by: Luis Lozano &lt;llozano@google.com&gt;
[nc: Resolve small conflict due to lack of NOINSTR_TEXT]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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