[PATCH] x86, relocs: add more per-cpu gold special cases

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Oct 01 2013 - 15:22:37 EST


The "gold" linker doesn't seem to put some additional per-cpu cases in
the right place. Add these to the per-cpu check. Without this, the kASLR
patch series fails to correctly apply relocations, and fails to boot.

Found and fixed by Michael Davidson.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
index f7bab68..71a2533 100644
--- a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
@@ -722,15 +722,23 @@ static void percpu_init(void)

/*
* Check to see if a symbol lies in the .data..percpu section.
- * For some as yet not understood reason the "__init_begin"
- * symbol which immediately preceeds the .data..percpu section
- * also shows up as it it were part of it so we do an explict
- * check for that symbol name and ignore it.
+ *
+ * The linker incorrectly associates some symbols with the
+ * .data..percpu section so we also need to check the symbol
+ * name to make sure that we classify the symbol correctly.
+ *
+ * The GNU linker incorrectly associates:
+ * __init_begin
+ *
+ * The "gold" linker incorrectly associates:
+ * init_per_cpu__irq_stack_union
+ * init_per_cpu__gdt_page
*/
static int is_percpu_sym(ElfW(Sym) *sym, const char *symname)
{
return (sym->st_shndx == per_cpu_shndx) &&
- strcmp(symname, "__init_begin");
+ strcmp(symname, "__init_begin") &&
+ strncmp(symname, "init_per_cpu_", 13);
}


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1.7.9.5


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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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