linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/module.c, branch v5.1

x86: Add support for 64-bit place relative relocations

2018-09-27T15:56:47+00:00

Add support for R_X86_64_PC64 relocations, which operate on 64-bit
quantities holding a relative symbol reference. Also remove the
definition of R_X86_64_NUM: given that it is currently unused, it
is unclear what the new value should be.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Jessica Yu 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919065144.25010-5-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org

x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32

2018-02-22T17:01:10+00:00

On i386, there are 2 types of PLTs, PIC and non-PIC.  PIE and shared
objects must use PIC PLT.  To use PIC PLT, you need to load
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ into EBX first.  There is no need for that on
x86-64 since x86-64 uses PC-relative PLT.

On x86-64, for 32-bit PC-relative branches, we can generate PLT32
relocation, instead of PC32 relocation, which can also be used as
a marker for 32-bit PC-relative branches.  Linker can always reduce
PLT32 relocation to PC32 if function is defined locally.   Local
functions should use PC32 relocation.  As far as Linux kernel is
concerned, R_X86_64_PLT32 can be treated the same as R_X86_64_PC32
since Linux kernel doesn't use PLT.

R_X86_64_PLT32 for 32-bit PC-relative branches has been enabled in
binutils master branch which will become binutils 2.31.

[ hjl is working on having better documentation on this all, but a few
  more notes from him:

   "PLT32 relocation is used as marker for PC-relative branches. Because
    of EBX, it looks odd to generate PLT32 relocation on i386 when EBX
    doesn't have GOT.

    As for symbol resolution, PLT32 and PC32 relocations are almost
    interchangeable. But when linker sees PLT32 relocation against a
    protected symbol, it can resolved locally at link-time since it is
    used on a branch instruction. Linker can't do that for PC32
    relocation"

  but for the kernel use, the two are basically the same, and this
  commit gets things building and working with the current binutils
  master   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86/module: Detect and skip invalid relocations

2017-11-05T08:52:16+00:00

There have been some cases where external tooling (e.g., kpatch-build)
creates a corrupt relocation which targets the wrong address.  This is a
silent failure which can corrupt memory in unexpected places.

On x86, the bytes of data being overwritten by relocations are always
initialized to zero beforehand.  Use that knowledge to add sanity checks
to detect such cases before they corrupt memory.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: jeyu@kernel.org
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/37450d6c6225e54db107fba447ce9e56e5f758e9.1509713553.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[ Restructured the messages, as it's unclear whether the relocation or the target is corrupted. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder

2017-07-26T11:18:20+00:00

Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework.

It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and
.orc_unwind_ip sections.

For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is
that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo
data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude
faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to
profiling workloads like perf.

Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas:
splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a
fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[ Extended the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly

2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00

__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation.  This API is quite popular

  $ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
  77

The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space.  About half of users don't
use this flag, though.  This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.

This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space.  Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM
are simplified and drop the flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Cristopher Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86/asm: Stop depending on ptrace.h in alternative.h

2016-04-29T09:56:40+00:00

alternative.h pulls in ptrace.h, which means that alternatives can't
be used in anything referenced from ptrace.h, which is a mess.

Break the dependency by pulling text patching helpers into their own
header.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/99b93b13f2c9eb671f5c98bba4c2cbdc061293a2.1461698311.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/mm/KASLR: Propagate KASLR status to kernel proper

2015-04-03T13:26:15+00:00

Commit:

  e2b32e678513 ("x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address")

made module base address randomization unconditional and didn't regard
disabled KKASLR due to CONFIG_HIBERNATION and command line option
"nokaslr". For more info see (now reverted) commit:

  f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")

In order to propagate KASLR status to kernel proper, we need a single bit
in boot_params.hdr.loadflags and we've chosen bit 1 thus leaving the
top-down allocated bits for bits supposed to be used by the bootloader.

Originally-From: Jiri Kosina 
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation"

2015-03-16T10:18:21+00:00

This reverts commit:

  f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")

The main reason for the revert is that the new boot flag does not work
at all currently, and in order to make this work, we need non-trivial
changes to the x86 boot code which we didn't manage to get done in
time for merging.

And even if we did, they would've been too risky so instead of
rushing things and break booting 4.1 on boxes left and right, we
will be very strict and conservative and will take our time with
this to fix and test it properly.

Reported-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Junjie Mao 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150316100628.GD22995@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-02-21T18:41:29+00:00

Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This contains:

   - EFI fixes
   - a boot printout fix
   - ASLR/kASLR fixes
   - intel microcode driver fixes
   - other misc fixes

  Most of the linecount comes from an EFI revert"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm/ASLR: Avoid PAGE_SIZE redefinition for UML subarch
  x86/microcode/intel: Handle truncated microcode images more robustly
  x86/microcode/intel: Guard against stack overflow in the loader
  x86, mm/ASLR: Fix stack randomization on 64-bit systems
  x86/mm/init: Fix incorrect page size in init_memory_mapping() printks
  x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation
  Documentation/x86: Fix path in zero-page.txt
  x86/apic: Fix the devicetree build in certain configs
  Revert "efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map and desc sizes"
  x86/efi: Avoid triple faults during EFI mixed mode calls

x86/mm/ASLR: Avoid PAGE_SIZE redefinition for UML subarch

2015-02-20T09:55:32+00:00

Commit f47233c2d34 ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address
calculation") causes PAGE_SIZE redefinition warnings for UML
subarch  builds. This is caused by added includes that were
leftovers from previous  patch versions are are not actually
needed (especially page_types.h  inlcude in module.c). Drop
those stray includes.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1502201017240.28769@pobox.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar