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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] module: Harden STRICT_MODULE_RWX
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 07:59:12PM +0200, peterz@infradead.org wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 06:01:35PM +0200, Jessica Yu wrote:
>
> > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 04:34:27PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > > > [33] .plt PROGBITS 0000000000000340 00035c80
> > > > > 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 WAX 0 0 1
> > > > > [34] .init.plt NOBITS 0000000000000341 00035c81
> > > > > 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 1
> > > > > [35] .text.ftrace[...] PROGBITS 0000000000000342 00035c81
> > > > > 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 WAX 0 0 1
>
> > Interesting, my cross-compiled modules do not have the executable flag -
> >
> > [38] .plt NOBITS 0000000000000340 00038fc0
> > 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 1
> > [39] .init.plt NOBITS 0000000000000341 00038fc0
> > 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 1
> > [40] .text.ftrace_tram NOBITS 0000000000000342 00038fc0
> > 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 1
>
> > I'm a bit confused about what NOLOAD actually implies in this context. From the
> > ld documentation - "The `(NOLOAD)' directive will mark a section to not be
> > loaded at run time." But these sections are marked SHF_ALLOC and are referenced
> > to in the module plt code. Or does it just tell the linker to not initialize it?
>
> Yeah, that confusion is wide-spread, so much so that bfd-ld and gold,
> both in bintils, had different behaviour at some point.
>
> Anyway, another clue is that your build has all NOBITS, while Mauro's
> build has PROGBITS for the broken sections.
>
> Anyway, my gcc-10.1/binutils-2.34 cross tool chain (from k.org)
> generates the same as Jessica's too. I wonder if binutils-2.35 is
> wonky...

When I use the Debian provided cross compiler which uses:

binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu 2.35-1

I do indeed see the same thing Mauro does, which seems to suggest
there's something really dodgy with that toolchain. Some tools person
should have a look.

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