Re: [PATCH] arm64: vmlinux.lds.S: keep .entry.tramp.text section

[Catalin Marinas]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 12:32:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:09:23PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 05:39:27PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 5:27 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:45:32AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 08:32:57PM -0800, Fangrui Song wrote:
> > > > > > On 2021-02-26, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 03:03:39PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > > > > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > When building with CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION,
> > > > > > > > I sometimes see an assertion
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >  ld.lld: error: Entry trampoline text too big
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Heh, "too big" seems a weird report for having it discarded. :)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Any idea on this Fangrui?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ( I see this is https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1311 )
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This diagnostic is from an ASSERT in arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   ASSERT((__entry_tramp_text_end - __entry_tramp_text_start) == (1 << 16),
> > > > > >    "Entry trampoline text too big")
> > > > >
> > > > > Can we not change the ASSERT to be <= PAGE_SIZE instead?
> > > >
> > > > Ah, that won't work as I suspect we still need the trampoline section.
> > > >
> > > > Arnd, do you know why this section disappears? I did a simple test with
> > > > defconfig + LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION and the trampoline section is
> > > > still around.
> > > 
> > > If I remember correctly, this showed up when CONFIG_ARM_SDE_INTERFACE
> > > is disabled, which dropped the only reference into this section.
> > > If that doesn't make sense, I can try digging through the old build logs to
> > > reproduce the problem.
> > 
> > I suspected this as well but still worked for me when disabling it.
> > 
> > Anyway, I don't think identifying the exact option is necessary. With
> > CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0=y we need this section around even if only
> > __entry_tramp_text_start/end are referenced.
> > 
> > In this case we happened to detect this issue because of the ASSERT in
> > vmlinux.lds.S but I wonder what else the linker drops with this dead
> > code elimination that we may not notice (it seems to remove about 500KB
> > from the resulting image in my test).
> > 
> > I'll push these two patches to -next for wider coverage before deciding
> > on mainline (though the option may not get much testing as it's hidden
> > behind EXPERT and default n).
> 
> I don't see this in -next? Catalin, do you want me to pick it up as part
> of my collecting various linker fixes?

IIRC this patch only makes sense if we also enable
HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION on arm64. Last time I looked at
Arnd's RFC it still had some issues:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210319122506.GA6832@xxxxxxx

So I decided against queuing that for now (and this patch on top was not
necessary).

-- 
Catalin