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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:51:44 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>
Cc: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] lkdtm: add test for executing .rodata
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:31 PM, David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:46:28PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:27 PM, PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 18 Feb 2016 at 12:34, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>
>>>> However, that does not fix the issue Kees is trying to solve, where a
>>>> .rodata section is emitted with the "x" bit set, which causes the
>>>> linker to complain:
>>>>
>>>> /tmp/cc50ffWw.s: Assembler messages:
>>>> /tmp/cc50ffWw.s:2: Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for
>>>> .rodata.text
>>>
>>>
>>> in that case why not use a top-level asm statement to set the section
>>> and its attributes (and compile the file with fno-toplevel-reorder)?
>>
>>
>> GCC really wants to declare the section. :(
>
>
> Why not then just use its mechanism to set the section on the code?
It's noted in the quoted section above. :) The problem is that gcc emits:
.section ".rodata","ax",@progbits
But we need the flags to be "a" not "ax". (And I'd note that even "@"
is arch-specific. % is used when @ is a comment start character.)
objcopy can get me the "a", but it seems to require renaming lkdtm.c,
which I really don't want to do.
-Kees
>
> static void do_nothing_rodata(void)
> __attribute__((section(".rodata")))
> {
> return;
> }
>
> David
--
Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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