Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] efi/libstub: Remove .note.gnu.property

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 09:44:11PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 08:31:42PM -0700, 'Fangrui Song' via Clang Built Linux wrote:
> > On 2020-06-23, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > In preparation for adding --orphan-handling=warn to more architectures,
> > > make sure unwanted sections don't end up appearing under the .init
> > > section prefix that libstub adds to itself during objcopy.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 3 +++
> > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> > > index 75daaf20374e..9d2d2e784bca 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> > > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> > > @@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ lib-$(CONFIG_X86)		+= x86-stub.o
> > > CFLAGS_arm32-stub.o		:= -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
> > > CFLAGS_arm64-stub.o		:= -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
> > > 
> > > +# Remove unwanted sections first.
> > > +STUBCOPY_FLAGS-y		+= --remove-section=.note.gnu.property
> > > +
> > > #
> > > # For x86, bootloaders like systemd-boot or grub-efi do not zero-initialize the
> > > # .bss section, so the .bss section of the EFI stub needs to be included in the
> > 
> > arch/arm64/Kconfig enables ARM64_PTR_AUTH by default. When the config is on
> > 
> > ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM64_BTI_KERNEL),y)
> > branch-prot-flags-$(CONFIG_CC_HAS_BRANCH_PROT_PAC_RET_BTI) := -mbranch-protection=pac-ret+leaf+bti
> > else
> > branch-prot-flags-$(CONFIG_CC_HAS_BRANCH_PROT_PAC_RET) := -mbranch-protection=pac-ret+leaf
> > endif
> > 
> > This option creates .note.gnu.property:
> > 
> > % readelf -n drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub.o
> > 
> > Displaying notes found in: .note.gnu.property
> >   Owner                Data size        Description
> >   GNU                  0x00000010       NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0
> >       Properties: AArch64 feature: PAC
> > 
> > If .note.gnu.property is not desired in drivers/firmware/efi/libstub, specifying
> > -mbranch-protection=none can override -mbranch-protection=pac-ret+leaf
> 
> We want to keep the branch protection enabled. But since it's not a
> "regular" ELF, we don't need to keep the property that identifies the
> feature.

For the kernel Image, how do we remove these sections? The objcopy flags
in arch/arm64/boot/Makefile look both insufficient and out of date. My
vmlinux ends up with both a ".notes" and a ".init.note.gnu.property"
segment.

Will