[kernel-hardening] Re: Linker segfault on powerpc when CONFIG_LKDTM=y (was Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 3/5] lkdtm: add function for testing .rodata section)

[Michael Ellerman]

Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>> Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> writes:
>>
>>> This adds a function that lives in the .rodata section. The section
>>> flags are corrected using objcopy since there is no way with gcc to
>>> declare section flags in an architecture-agnostic way.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/misc/Makefile       |  7 +++++++
>>>  drivers/misc/lkdtm.h        |  6 ++++++
>>>  drivers/misc/lkdtm_core.c   | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
>>>  drivers/misc/lkdtm_rodata.c | 10 ++++++++++
>>>  4 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/lkdtm.h
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/lkdtm_rodata.c
>>
>> This is blowing up my linker :(
>>
>>   scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: line 52: 36260 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ${LD} ${LDFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS_vmlinux} -o ${2} -T ${lds} ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT} --start-group ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN} --end-group ${1}
>>
>> Haven't had a chance to debug it further.
>
> Argh. Do you want a quick fix for this now? I can add a PPC CONFIG
> blacklist for the rodata check, maybe?

Nah that's OK, none of our defconfigs have it enabled so it's not a real
blocker. It also builds OK as a module - though I haven't tested the
result yet.

> Also, what version of gcc? I'll see if I can reproduce this with a
> cross compiler...

The original hit was with gcc-5.3 (which is actually a x86->ppc cross):

  http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/12762730/

But I can also reproduce with 5.4, and 6.1.0.

Interestingly I *can't* reproduce with the Ubuntu x86->ppc cross
(5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.1).

Those toolchains are all using binutils 2.26 AFAIK.

Going back to a really old toolchain (gcc 4.6.3/binutils 2.22) it does
build but I get these warnings:

 powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/misc/built-in.o: .opd is not a regular array of opd entries
 powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/built-in.o: .opd is not a regular array of opd entries
 powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/built-in.o: .opd is not a regular array of opd entries
 powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/built-in.o: .opd is not a regular array of opd entries
 powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/built-in.o: .opd is not a regular array of opd entries


So probably don't worry about it and we'll try and work it out on our end.

cheers