Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Always link with '-z norelro'

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 01:53, Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 04:44:46PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 10:41 AM Nathan Chancellor
> > <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Commit 3bbd3db86470 ("arm64: relocatable: fix inconsistencies in linker
> > > script and options") added '-z norelro' to the arm64 Makefile when
> > > CONFIG_RELOCATABLE was set to help support ld.lld because ld.lld
> > > defaults to '-z relro' but the kernel does not use program headers or
> > > adhere to the section layout that is required for RELRO to work.
> > >
> > > Commit 3b92fa7485eb ("arm64: link with -z norelro regardless of
> > > CONFIG_RELOCATABLE") unconditionally added it to LDFLAGS_vmlinux because
> > > an error occurs with CONFIG_KASAN set even when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is
> > > unset.
> > >
> > > As it turns out, ARM experiences the same error after CONFIG_KASAN was
> > > implemented, meaning that '-z norelro' needs to be added to that
> > > Makefile as well (multi_v7_defconfig + CONFIG_KASAN=y + LD=ld.lld):
> > >
> > > $ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- LLVM=1 zImage
> > > ld.lld: error: section: .exit.data is not contiguous with other relro sections
> > >
> > > To avoid playing whack-a-mole with different architectures over time,
> > > hoist '-z norelro' into the main Makefile. This does not affect ld.bfd
> > > because '-z norelro' is the default for it.
> > >
> > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1189
> > > Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Why not add it additionally to KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE a la
> > `--build-id=sha1` a few lines above? (or `LDFLAGS_MODULE`, but that
> > looks unused?)  We probably don't want this for modules either.  In
> > that case, you could add -z norelo to the two existing lines with
> > `--build-id=sha1` above?
>
> Yes, I can do that. I will send a v2 along tomorrow morning to let
> others comment.
>

Modules are partially linked objects, so there is no point in passing
-z options for them.