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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86: link vdso and boot with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments</title>
<updated>2022-08-25T09:11:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
</author>
<published>2022-08-10T22:24:41Z</published>
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commit ffcf9c5700e49c0aee42dcba9a12ba21338e8136 upstream.

Users of GNU ld (BFD) from binutils 2.39+ will observe multiple
instances of a new warning when linking kernels in the form:

  ld: warning: arch/x86/boot/pmjump.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack
  ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker
  ld: warning: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions

Generally, we would like to avoid the stack being executable.  Because
there could be a need for the stack to be executable, assembler sources
have to opt-in to this security feature via explicit creation of the
.note.GNU-stack feature (which compilers create by default) or command
line flag --noexecstack.  Or we can simply tell the linker the
production of such sections is irrelevant and to link the stack as
--noexecstack.

LLVM's LLD linker defaults to -z noexecstack, so this flag isn't
strictly necessary when linking with LLD, only BFD, but it doesn't hurt
to be explicit here for all linkers IMO.  --no-warn-rwx-segments is
currently BFD specific and only available in the current latest release,
so it's wrapped in an ld-option check.

While the kernel makes extensive usage of ELF sections, it doesn't use
permissions from ELF segments.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/3af4127a-f453-4cf7-f133-a181cce06f73@kernel.dk/
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=ba951afb99912da01a6e8434126b8fac7aa75107
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57009
Reported-and-tested-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation</title>
<updated>2021-01-30T12:31:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T00:43:08Z</published>
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commit 09e43968db40c33a73e9ddbfd937f46d5c334924 upstream.

The x86-64 psABI [0] specifies special relocation types
(R_X86_64_[REX_]GOTPCRELX) for indirection through the Global Offset
Table, semantically equivalent to R_X86_64_GOTPCREL, which the linker
can take advantage of for optimization (relaxation) at link time. This
is supported by LLD and binutils versions 2.26 onwards.

The compressed kernel is position-independent code, however, when using
LLD or binutils versions before 2.27, it must be linked without the -pie
option. In this case, the linker may optimize certain instructions into
a non-position-independent form, by converting foo@GOTPCREL(%rip) to $foo.

This potential issue has been present with LLD and binutils-2.26 for a
long time, but it has never manifested itself before now:

- LLD and binutils-2.26 only relax
	movq	foo@GOTPCREL(%rip), %reg
  to
	leaq	foo(%rip), %reg
  which is still position-independent, rather than
	mov	$foo, %reg
  which is permitted by the psABI when -pie is not enabled.

- GCC happens to only generate GOTPCREL relocations on mov instructions.

- CLang does generate GOTPCREL relocations on non-mov instructions, but
  when building the compressed kernel, it uses its integrated assembler
  (due to the redefinition of KBUILD_CFLAGS dropping -no-integrated-as),
  which has so far defaulted to not generating the GOTPCRELX
  relocations.

Nick Desaulniers reports [1,2]:

  "A recent change [3] to a default value of configuration variable
   (ENABLE_X86_RELAX_RELOCATIONS OFF -&gt; ON) in LLVM now causes Clang's
   integrated assembler to emit R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX/R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX
   relocations. LLD will relax instructions with these relocations based
   on whether the image is being linked as position independent or not.
   When not, then LLD will relax these instructions to use absolute
   addressing mode (R_RELAX_GOT_PC_NOPIC). This causes kernels built with
   Clang and linked with LLD to fail to boot."

Patch series [4] is a solution to allow the compressed kernel to be
linked with -pie unconditionally, but even if merged is unlikely to be
backported. As a simple solution that can be applied to stable as well,
prevent the assembler from generating the relaxed relocation types using
the -mrelax-relocations=no option. For ease of backporting, do this
unconditionally.

[0] https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI/-/blob/master/x86-64-ABI/linker-optimization.tex#L65
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200807194100.3570838-1-ndesaulniers@google.com/
[2] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1121
[3] https://reviews.llvm.org/rGc41a18cf61790fc898dcda1055c3efbf442c14c0
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200731202738.2577854-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu/

Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200812004308.1448603-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
[nc: Backport to 4.14]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Correct relocation destination on old linkers</title>
<updated>2020-06-20T08:25:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
</author>
<published>2020-02-07T21:49:26Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5214028dd89e49ba27007c3ee475279e584261f0 ]

For the 32-bit kernel, as described in

  6d92bc9d483a ("x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE"),

pre-2.26 binutils generates R_386_32 relocations in PIE mode. Since the
startup code does not perform relocation, any reloc entry with R_386_32
will remain as 0 in the executing code.

Commit

  974f221c84b0 ("x86/boot: Move compressed kernel to the end of the
                 decompression buffer")

added a new symbol _end but did not mark it hidden, which doesn't give
the correct offset on older linkers. This causes the compressed kernel
to be copied beyond the end of the decompression buffer, rather than
flush against it. This region of memory may be reserved or already
allocated for other purposes by the bootloader.

Mark _end as hidden to fix. This changes the relocation from R_386_32 to
R_386_RELATIVE even on the pre-2.26 binutils.

For 64-bit, this is not strictly necessary, as the 64-bit kernel is only
built as PIE if the linker supports -z noreloc-overflow, which implies
binutils-2.27+, but for consistency, mark _end as hidden here too.

The below illustrates the before/after impact of the patch using
binutils-2.25 and gcc-4.6.4 (locally compiled from source) and QEMU.

  Disassembly before patch:
    48:   8b 86 60 02 00 00       mov    0x260(%esi),%eax
    4e:   2d 00 00 00 00          sub    $0x0,%eax
                          4f: R_386_32    _end
  Disassembly after patch:
    48:   8b 86 60 02 00 00       mov    0x260(%esi),%eax
    4e:   2d 00 f0 76 00          sub    $0x76f000,%eax
                          4f: R_386_RELATIVE      *ABS*

Dump from extract_kernel before patch:
	early console in extract_kernel
	input_data: 0x0207c098 &lt;--- this is at output + init_size
	input_len: 0x0074fef1
	output: 0x01000000
	output_len: 0x00fa63d0
	kernel_total_size: 0x0107c000
	needed_size: 0x0107c000

Dump from extract_kernel after patch:
	early console in extract_kernel
	input_data: 0x0190d098 &lt;--- this is at output + init_size - _end
	input_len: 0x0074fef1
	output: 0x01000000
	output_len: 0x00fa63d0
	kernel_total_size: 0x0107c000
	needed_size: 0x0107c000

Fixes: 974f221c84b0 ("x86/boot: Move compressed kernel to the end of the decompression buffer")
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207214926.3564079-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Use unsigned comparison for addresses</title>
<updated>2020-04-24T06:00:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
</author>
<published>2020-03-08T08:08:44Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 81a34892c2c7c809f9c4e22c5ac936ae673fb9a2 ]

The load address is compared with LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR using a signed
comparison currently (using jge instruction).

When loading a 64-bit kernel using the new efi32_pe_entry() point added by:

  97aa276579b2 ("efi/x86: Add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section")

using Qemu with -m 3072, the firmware actually loads us above 2Gb,
resulting in a very early crash.

Use the JAE instruction to perform a unsigned comparison instead, as physical
addresses should be considered unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200301230436.2246909-6-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-14-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot/compressed: Don't declare __force_order in kaslr_64.c</title>
<updated>2020-03-11T17:03:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>H.J. Lu</name>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T20:46:51Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit df6d4f9db79c1a5d6f48b59db35ccd1e9ff9adfc ]

GCC 10 changed the default to -fno-common, which leads to

    LD      arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
  ld: arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `__force_order'; \
    arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr_64.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
  make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:119: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1

Since __force_order is already provided in pgtable_64.c, there is no
need to declare __force_order in kaslr_64.c.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200124181811.4780-1-hjl.tools@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/efistub: Disable paging at mixed mode entry</title>
<updated>2020-01-23T07:20:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
</author>
<published>2019-12-24T13:29:09Z</published>
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commit 4911ee401b7ceff8f38e0ac597cbf503d71e690c upstream.

The EFI mixed mode entry code goes through the ordinary startup_32()
routine before jumping into the kernel's EFI boot code in 64-bit
mode. The 32-bit startup code must be entered with paging disabled,
but this is not documented as a requirement for the EFI handover
protocol, and so we should disable paging explicitly when entering
the kernel from 32-bit EFI firmware.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191224132909.102540-4-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, boot: Remove multiple copy of static function sanitize_boot_params()</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T17:05:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhenzhong Duan</name>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T13:18:12Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8c5477e8046ca139bac250386c08453da37ec1ae ]

Kernel build warns:
 'sanitize_boot_params' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]

at below files:
  arch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.c
  arch/x86/boot/compressed/error.c
  arch/x86/boot/compressed/early_serial_console.c
  arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c

That's becausethey each include misc.h which includes a definition of
sanitize_boot_params() via bootparam_utils.h.

Remove the inclusion from misc.h and have the c file including
bootparam_utils.h directly.

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563283092-1189-1-git-send-email-zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Fix if_changed build flip/flop bug</title>
<updated>2018-09-05T07:26:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
</author>
<published>2018-07-24T23:08:27Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 92a4728608a8fd228c572bc8ff50dd98aa0ddf2a ]

Dirk Gouders reported that two consecutive "make" invocations on an
already compiled tree will show alternating behaviors:

$ make
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  DESCEND  objtool
  CHK     include/generated/compile.h
  DATAREL arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#48)
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 165 modules

$ make
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  DESCEND  objtool
  CHK     include/generated/compile.h
  LD      arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
  ZOFFSET arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h
  AS      arch/x86/boot/header.o
  LD      arch/x86/boot/setup.elf
  OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/setup.bin
  OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/vmlinux.bin
  BUILD   arch/x86/boot/bzImage
Setup is 15644 bytes (padded to 15872 bytes).
System is 6663 kB
CRC 3eb90f40
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#48)
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 165 modules

He bisected it back to:

    commit 98f78525371b ("x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations")

The root cause was the use of the "if_changed" kbuild function multiple
times for the same target. It was designed to only be used once per
target, otherwise it will effectively always trigger, flipping back and
forth between the two commands getting recorded by "if_changed". Instead,
this patch merges the two commands into a single function to get stable
build artifacts (i.e. .vmlinux.cmd), and a single build behavior.

Bisected-and-Reported-by: Dirk Gouders &lt;dirk@gouders.net&gt;
Fix-Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180724230827.GA37823@beast
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>efi: Avoid potential crashes, fix the 'struct efi_pci_io_protocol_32' definition for mixed mode</title>
<updated>2018-05-22T16:54:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
</author>
<published>2018-05-04T05:59:58Z</published>
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commit 0b3225ab9407f557a8e20f23f37aa7236c10a9b1 upstream.

Mixed mode allows a kernel built for x86_64 to interact with 32-bit
EFI firmware, but requires us to define all struct definitions carefully
when it comes to pointer sizes.

'struct efi_pci_io_protocol_32' currently uses a 'void *' for the
'romimage' field, which will be interpreted as a 64-bit field
on such kernels, potentially resulting in bogus memory references
and subsequent crashes.

Tested-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504060003.19618-13-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot/64: Verify alignment of the LOAD segment</title>
<updated>2018-03-28T16:24:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>H.J. Lu</name>
</author>
<published>2018-03-19T21:08:11Z</published>
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commit c55b8550fa57ba4f5e507be406ff9fc2845713e8 upstream.

Since the x86-64 kernel must be aligned to 2MB, refuse to boot the
kernel if the alignment of the LOAD segment isn't a multiple of 2MB.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOrR7xSJgUfiCoZLuqWUwymRxXPoGBW38%2BpN%3D9g%2ByKNhZw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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