Re: [PATCH] arm64/vdso: Discard .note.gnu.property sections in vDSO

[Bill Wendling]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:21 PM Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:40 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 06:28:47PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:51:59PM -0700, Bill Wendling wrote:
> >
> > > > Since the note.gnu.property section in the vDSO is not checked by the
> > > > dynamic linker, discard the .note.gnu.property sections in the vDSO.
> >
> > > Can we not instead fix the linker script to preserve the
> > > .note.gnu.property, correctly aligned? It doesn't take much space and
> > > while we don't use it now, it has the BTI information about the binary.
> >
> > > Cc'ing a few others who were involved in the BTI support.
> >
> > Not just BTI, we also flag PAC usage in there too and could add other
> > extensions going forwards.  While the note isn't actively used by
> > anything right now due to the kernel mapping the vDSO prior to userspace
> > starting it is part of the ABI and something could end up wanting to use
> > it and getting confused if it's not there.  It would be much better to
> > fix the alignment issue.
>
> If there's only one of the 8-byte aligned sections guaranteed, we
> could place it first in the note. Otherwise, we will have to change
> the alignment of the note (or somehow merge multiple notes).
>
I should have clarified that there's only one *entry* in the
.note.gnu.properties section, and if not then is it possible to merge
multiple entries into one. (Excuse my ignorance if this is already the
case.)

-bw