Re: [PATCH v8 03/14] x86: Add support for function granular KASLR

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 11:32:03PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This commit contains the changes required to re-layout the kernel text
> sections generated by -ffunction-sections shortly after decompression.
> Documentation of the feature is also added.
> 
> After decompression, the decompressed image's elf headers are parsed.
> In order to manually update certain data structures that are built with
> relative offsets during the kernel build process, certain symbols are
> not stripped by objdump and their location is retained in the elf symbol
> tables. These addresses are saved.
> 
> If the image was built with -ffunction-sections, there will be ELF section
> headers present which contain information about the address range of each
> section. Anything that is not broken out into function sections (i.e. is
> consolidated into .text) is left in it's original location, but any other
> executable section which begins with ".text." is located and shuffled
> randomly within the remaining text segment address range.
> 
> After the sections have been copied to their new locations, but before
> relocations have been applied, the kallsyms tables must be updated to
> reflect the new symbol locations. Because it is expected that these tables
> will be sorted by address, the kallsyms tables will need to be sorted
> after the update.
> 
> When applying relocations, the address of the relocation needs to be
> adjusted by the offset from the original location of the section that was
> randomized to it's new location. In addition, if a value at that relocation
> was a location in the text segment that was randomized, it's value will be
> adjusted to a new location.
> 
> After relocations have been applied, the exception table must be updated
> with new symbol locations, and then re-sorted by the new address. The
> orc table will have been updated as part of applying relocations, but since
> it is expected to be sorted by address, it will need to be resorted.


> +static long addr_kallsyms_names;
> +static long addr_kallsyms_offsets;
> +static long addr_kallsyms_num_syms;
> +static long addr_kallsyms_relative_base;
> +static long addr_kallsyms_markers;
> +static long addr___start___ex_table;
> +static long addr___stop___ex_table;
> +static long addr___altinstr_replacement;
> +static long addr___altinstr_replacement_end;
> +static long addr__stext;
> +static long addr__etext;
> +static long addr__sinittext;
> +static long addr__einittext;
> +static long addr___start_orc_unwind_ip;
> +static long addr___stop_orc_unwind_ip;
> +static long addr___start_orc_unwind;

> +void post_relocations_cleanup(unsigned long map)
> +{
> +	if (!nofgkaslr) {
> +		update_ex_table(map);
> +		sort_ex_table(map);
> +		update_orc_table(map);
> +		sort_orc_table(map);
> +	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * maybe one day free will do something. So, we "free" this memory
> +	 * in either case
> +	 */
> +	free(sections);
> +	free(sechdrs);
> +}
> +
> +void pre_relocations_cleanup(unsigned long map)
> +{
> +	if (nofgkaslr)
> +		return;
> +
> +	sort_kallsyms(map);
> +}

> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.symbols b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.symbols
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..da41f3ee153c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.symbols
> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> +kallsyms_offsets
> +kallsyms_addresses
> +kallsyms_num_syms
> +kallsyms_relative_base
> +kallsyms_names
> +kallsyms_token_table
> +kallsyms_token_index
> +kallsyms_markers
> +__start___ex_table
> +__stop___ex_table
> +__altinstr_replacement
> +__altinstr_replacement_end
> +_sinittext
> +_einittext
> +_stext
> +_etext
> +__start_orc_unwind_ip
> +__stop_orc_unwind_ip
> +__start_orc_unwind

So please don't make it hard to add sections; the above has far too much
duplication. For example you can trivially generate the addr_ symbol and
the .symbol file from a common include file and a bit of macro wrappery,
ideally that macro wrappery would also specify the sort location and
function such that you can also generate those pre_ and post_ functions.

And this is only for sections that need to be sorted right? There's
currently a patch in flight to also pre-sort the ftrace table.

All unsorted or runtime sorted sections are fine since they're fixed up
by the relocations?

Is it at all feasible to share the comparison functions between the
various sorters?