Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] riscv: support the elf-fdpic binfmt loader

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023, at 9:17 AM, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> On 13/7/23 01:12, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, at 9:07 AM, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>> Add support for enabling and using the binfmt_elf_fdpic program loader
>>> on RISC-V platforms. The most important change is to setup registers
>>> during program load to pass the mapping addresses to the new process.
>>>
>>> One of the interesting features of the elf-fdpic loader is that it
>>> also allows appropriately compiled ELF format binaries to be loaded on
>>> nommu systems. Appropriate being those compiled with -pie.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> v1->v2: rebase onto linux-6.5-rc1
>>>          increment PTRACE_GETFDPIC value to keep it unique
>>>
>>>   arch/riscv/include/asm/elf.h         | 11 ++++++++++-
>>>   arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h         |  4 ++++
>>>   arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h |  5 +++++
>>>   fs/Kconfig.binfmt                    |  2 +-
>>>   4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/elf.h
>>> index c24280774caf..c33fe923ef6d 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/elf.h
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/elf.h
>>> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ extern bool compat_elf_check_arch(Elf32_Ehdr *hdr);
>>>   #define compat_elf_check_arch	compat_elf_check_arch
>>>
>>>   #define CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET
>>> +#define ELF_FDPIC_CORE_EFLAGS	0
>>>   #define ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE	(PAGE_SIZE)
>>>
>>>   /*
>>> @@ -69,6 +70,13 @@ extern bool compat_elf_check_arch(Elf32_Ehdr *hdr);
>>>   #define ELF_HWCAP	riscv_get_elf_hwcap()
>>>   extern unsigned long elf_hwcap;
>>>
>>> +#define ELF_FDPIC_PLAT_INIT(_r, _exec_map_addr, _interp_map_addr,
>>> dynamic_addr) \
>>> +	do { \
>>> +		(_r)->a1 = _exec_map_addr; \
>>> +		(_r)->a2 = _interp_map_addr; \
>>> +		(_r)->a3 = dynamic_addr; \
>>> +	} while (0)
>>> +
>> 
>> This should probably be left empty for now; it will be defined by the
>> ELF FDPIC ABI when that is done, and shouldn't be used by normal ELF
>> binaries. 
>
> True, not used by the ELF binaries themselves. But used by an ELF
> interpreter to do the runtime relocations.

By "normal ELF binaries", I mean binaries (executables and shared libraries
with nonzero e_entry, including statically linked binaries and the dynamic
linker itself) that conform to the psABI as it currently exists in
riscv-elf-psabi-doc.

These binaries don't use load maps because they aren't defined in
riscv-elf-psabi-doc yet.  At some point in the future, riscv-elf-psabi-doc
may define a FDPIC EI_OSABI value and rules for its usage; "FDPIC ELF
binaries" will not be "normal" and you will not be able to load them with
binfmt_elf or binfmt_elf_compat.

"FDPIC elf binaries" which contain their own self-relocation code, including
the dynamic linker and statically linked binaries, will use the map and
dynamic addresses.

elf_check_fdpic will return 1 for binaries that use the FDPIC EI_OSABI and
use the load maps as part of either their own or their interpreter's
startup code.  For binaries where elf_check_fdpic returns 0, the contents
of ELF_FDPIC_PLAT_INIT is (harmless) dead stores.

We don't have an implementation of elf_check_fdpic yet, which means that
we cannot load binaries that actually use the load maps and the
ELF_FDPIC_PLAT_INIT is dead code.  Dead code which is unlikely to conform
to the future ABI, since the RISC-V psABI Task Group has yet to choose
which registers to use to pass the load maps.  Since the code is dead and
likely wrong, it should be removed so that correct code can be added at
the correct time.

-s

>> I'd ask if there's a reason it starts at a1 instead of a0,
>> but it seems idiosyncratic on all arches that have full FDPIC support.
>
> This comment in the crt1.S code of uClibc made me think that a0 already had
> a pre-defined use in the ABI:
>
>      /* The entry point's job is to call __uClibc_main.  Per the ABI,
>         a0 contains the address of a function to be passed to atexit.
>
> But I didn't dig any further than that.
>
> Regards
> Greg
>
>
>> -s
>> 
>>>   /*
>>>    * This yields a string that ld.so will use to load implementation
>>>    * specific libraries for optimization.  This is more specific in
>>> @@ -78,7 +86,6 @@ extern unsigned long elf_hwcap;
>>>
>>>   #define COMPAT_ELF_PLATFORM	(NULL)
>>>
>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>>>   #define ARCH_DLINFO						\
>>>   do {								\
>>>   	/*							\
>>> @@ -115,6 +122,8 @@ do {								\
>>>   	else							 \
>>>   		NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_IGNORE, 0);			 \
>>>   } while (0)
>>> +
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>>>   #define ARCH_HAS_SETUP_ADDITIONAL_PAGES
>>>   struct linux_binprm;
>>>   extern int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h
>>> index 0099dc116168..355504b37f8e 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h
>>> @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ typedef struct {
>>>   	/* A local icache flush is needed before user execution can resume. */
>>>   	cpumask_t icache_stale_mask;
>>>   #endif
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF_FDPIC
>>> +	unsigned long exec_fdpic_loadmap;
>>> +	unsigned long interp_fdpic_loadmap;
>>> +#endif
>>>   } mm_context_t;
>>>
>>>   void __init create_pgd_mapping(pgd_t *pgdp, uintptr_t va, phys_addr_t
>>> pa,
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
>>> b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
>>> index e17c550986a6..30f6d6537adc 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
>>> @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
>>>
>>>   #include <linux/types.h>
>>>
>>> +#define PTRACE_GETFDPIC		33
>>> +
>>> +#define PTRACE_GETFDPIC_EXEC	0
>>> +#define PTRACE_GETFDPIC_INTERP	1
>>> +
>>>   /*
>>>    * User-mode register state for core dumps, ptrace, sigcontext
>>>    *
>>> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
>>> index 93539aac0e5b..f5693164ca9a 100644
>>> --- a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
>>> +++ b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
>>> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ config ARCH_USE_GNU_PROPERTY
>>>   config BINFMT_ELF_FDPIC
>>>   	bool "Kernel support for FDPIC ELF binaries"
>>>   	default y if !BINFMT_ELF
>>> -	depends on ARM || ((M68K || SUPERH || XTENSA) && !MMU)
>>> +	depends on ARM || ((M68K || RISCV || SUPERH || XTENSA) && !MMU)
>>>   	select ELFCORE
>>>   	help
>>>   	  ELF FDPIC binaries are based on ELF, but allow the individual load
>>> -- 
>>> 2.25.1
>>>
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