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Contemporary kernels and modules can be relatively large, especially
when common debug options are enabled. Using GCC 12.1.0, a v6.3-rc7
defconfig kernel is ~38M, and with PROVE_LOCKING + KASAN_INLINE enabled
this expands to ~117M. Shanker reports [1] that the NVIDIA GPU driver
alone can consume 110M of module space in some configurations.
Both KASLR and ARM64_ERRATUM_843419 select MODULE_PLTS, so anyone
wanting a kernel to have KASLR or run on Cortex-A53 will have
MODULE_PLTS selected. This is the case in defconfig and distribution
kernels (e.g. Debian, Android, etc).
Practically speaking, this means we're very likely to need MODULE_PLTS
and while it's almost guaranteed that MODULE_PLTS will be selected, it
is possible to disable support, and we have to maintain some awkward
special cases for such unusual configurations.
This patch removes the MODULE_PLTS config option, with the support code
always enabled if MODULES is selected. This results in a slight
simplification, and will allow for further improvement in subsequent
patches.
For any config which currently selects MODULE_PLTS, there will be no
functional change as a result of this patch.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/159ceeab-09af-3174-5058-445bc8dcf85b@nvidia.com/
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230530110328.2213762-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Enable asynchronous unwind table generation for both the core kernel as
well as modules, and emit the resulting .eh_frame sections as init code
so we can use the unwind directives for code patching at boot or module
load time.
This will be used by dynamic shadow call stack support, which will rely
on code patching rather than compiler codegen to emit the shadow call
stack push and pop instructions.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221027155908.1940624-2-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
inappropriate for .plt and .text.* sections which are always
SHT_PROGBITS.
In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway
and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since
https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=<value>) to
customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
mismatch` error. Just remove (NOLOAD) to fix the error.
[1] https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/linker_script.html As of today, "The
section should be marked as not loadable" on
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Type.html is
outdated for ELF.
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220218081209.354383-1-maskray@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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By using outlined checks we can achieve a significant code size
improvement by moving the tag-based ASAN checks into separate
functions. Unlike the existing CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE mode these
functions have a custom calling convention that preserves most
registers and is specialized to the register containing the address
and the type of access, and as a result we can eliminate the code
size and performance overhead of a standard calling convention such
as AAPCS for these functions.
This change depends on a separate series of changes to Clang [1] to
support outlined checks in the kernel, although the change works fine
without them (we just don't get outlined checks). This is because the
flag -mllvm -hwasan-inline-all-checks=0 has no effect until the Clang
changes land. The flag was introduced in the Clang 9.0 timeframe as
part of the support for outlined checks in userspace and because our
minimum Clang version is 10.0 we can pass it unconditionally.
Outlined checks require a new runtime function with a custom calling
convention. Add this function to arch/arm64/lib.
I measured the code size of defconfig + tag-based KASAN, as well
as boot time (i.e. time to init launch) on a DragonBoard 845c with
an Android arm64 GKI kernel. The results are below:
code size boot time
CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y before 92824064 6.18s
CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y after 38822400 6.65s
CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE=y 39215616 11.48s
We can see straight away that specialized outlined checks beat the
existing CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE=y on both code size and boot time
for tag-based ASAN.
As for the comparison between CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y before and after
we saw similar performance numbers in userspace [2] and decided
that since the performance overhead is minimal compared to the
overhead of tag-based ASAN itself as well as compared to the code
size improvements we would just replace the inlined checks with the
specialized outlined checks without the option to select between them,
and that is what I have implemented in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I1a30036c70ab3c3ee78d75ed9b87ef7cdc3fdb76
Link: [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D90426
Link: [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D56954
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210526174927.2477847-3-pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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These plt* and .text.ftrace_trampoline sections specified for arm64 have
non-zero addressses. Non-zero section addresses in a relocatable ELF would
confuse GDB when it tries to compute the section offsets and it ends up
printing wrong symbol addresses. Therefore, set them to zero, which mirrors
the change in commit 5d8591bc0fba ("module: set ksymtab/kcrctab* section
addresses to 0x0").
Reported-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaoying Xu <shaoyi@amazon.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210216183234.GA23876@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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There was a request to preprocess the module linker script like we
do for the vmlinux one. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/21/512)
The difference between vmlinux.lds and module.lds is that the latter
is needed for external module builds, thus must be cleaned up by
'make mrproper' instead of 'make clean'. Also, it must be created
by 'make modules_prepare'.
You cannot put it in arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/, which is cleaned up by
'make clean'. I moved arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/module.lds to
arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/asm/module.lds.h, which is included from
scripts/module.lds.S.
scripts/module.lds is fine because 'make clean' keeps all the
build artifacts under scripts/.
You can add arch-specific sections in <asm/module.lds.h>.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
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Mark Rutland
Ard Biesheuvel
Fangrui Song
Peter Collingbourne
Shaoying Xu
Masahiro Yamada
