History log of /linux-master/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
Revision Date Author Comments
# a96a7a7d 26-Jul-2023 Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>

arm64: vdso: remove two .altinstructions related symbols

The two symbols __alt_instructions and __alt_instructions_end are not
used, since the vDSO patching code looks for the '.altinstructions' ELF
section directly.

Remove the unused linker symbols.

Fixes: 4e3bca8f7cdd ("arm64: alternative: patch alternatives in the vDSO")
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726173619.3732-1-jszhang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>


# 4e3bca8f 30-Aug-2022 Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>

arm64: alternative: patch alternatives in the vDSO

Make it possible to use alternatives in the vDSO, so that better
implementations can be used if possible.

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830104833.34636-3-joey.gouly@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>


# 4274929c 28-Jun-2022 Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>

arm64: vdso*: place got/plt sections in .rodata

The vDSO will not contain absolute relocations, so place these
sections in .rodata.

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/00abb0c5-6360-0004-353f-e7a88b3bd22c@arm.com/
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220628151307.35561-3-joey.gouly@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>


# b87d34ca 10-May-2022 Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>

arm64: vdso: put ELF related sections in the linker script

Use macros from vmlinux.lds.h to explicitly name sections that are included
in the VDSO output.

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510095834.32394-2-joey.gouly@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>


# 38870802 23-Apr-2021 Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>

arm64/vdso: Discard .note.gnu.property sections in vDSO

The arm64 assembler in binutils 2.32 and above generates a program
property note in a note section, .note.gnu.property, to encode used x86
ISAs and features. But the kernel linker script only contains a single
NOTE segment:

PHDRS
{
text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5) FILEHDR PHDRS; /* PF_R|PF_X */
dynamic PT_DYNAMIC FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
}

The NOTE segment generated by the vDSO linker script is aligned to 4 bytes.
But the .note.gnu.property section must be aligned to 8 bytes on arm64.

$ readelf -n vdso64.so

Displaying notes found in: .note
Owner Data size Description
Linux 0x00000004 Unknown note type: (0x00000000)
description data: 06 00 00 00
readelf: Warning: note with invalid namesz and/or descsz found at offset 0x20
readelf: Warning: type: 0x78, namesize: 0x00000100, descsize: 0x756e694c, alignment: 8

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.

Similar to commit 4caffe6a28d31 ("x86/vdso: Discard .note.gnu.property
sections in vDSO"), but for arm64.

Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210423205159.830854-1-morbo@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>


# e2bba5f9 30-Dec-2020 Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>

arm64: vdso: disable .eh_frame_hdr via /DISCARD/ instead of --no-eh-frame-hdr

Currently with ld.lld we emit an empty .eh_frame_hdr section (and a
corresponding program header) into the vDSO. With ld.bfd the section
is not emitted but the program header is, with p_vaddr set to 0. This
can lead to unwinders attempting to interpret the data at whichever
location the program header happens to point to as an unwind info
header. This happens to be mostly harmless as long as the byte at
that location (interpreted as a version number) has a value other
than 1, causing both libgcc and LLVM libunwind to ignore the section
(in libunwind's case, after printing an error message to stderr),
but it could lead to worse problems if the byte happened to be 1 or
the program header points to non-readable memory (e.g. if the empty
section was placed at a page boundary).

Instead of disabling .eh_frame_hdr via --no-eh-frame-hdr (which
also has the downside of being unsupported by older versions of GNU
binutils), disable it by discarding the section, and stop emitting
the program header that points to it.

I understand that we intend to emit valid unwind info for the vDSO
at some point. Once that happens this patch can be reverted.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/If745fd9cadcb31b4010acbf5693727fe111b0863
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201230221954.2007257-1-pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>


# 3503d56c 24-Jun-2020 Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>

arm64/vdso: Add time namespace page

Allocate the time namespace page among VVAR pages. Provide
__arch_get_timens_vdso_data() helper for VDSO code to get the
code-relative position of VVARs on that special page.

If a task belongs to a time namespace then the VVAR page which contains
the system wide VDSO data is replaced with a namespace specific page
which has the same layout as the VVAR page. That page has vdso_data->seq
set to 1 to enforce the slow path and vdso_data->clock_mode set to
VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce the time namespace handling path.

The extra check in the case that vdso_data->seq is odd, e.g. a concurrent
update of the VDSO data is in progress, is not really affecting regular
tasks which are not part of a time namespace as the task is spin waiting
for the update to finish and vdso_data->seq to become even again.

If a time namespace task hits that code path, it invokes the corresponding
time getter function which retrieves the real VVAR page, reads host time
and then adds the offset for the requested clock which is stored in the
special VVAR page.

The time-namespace page isn't allocated on !CONFIG_TIME_NAMESPACE, but
vma is the same size, which simplifies criu/vdso migration between
different kernel configs.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200624083321.144975-4-avagin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>


# caab277b 02-Jun-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 234

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation this program is
distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 601255ae 09-Jul-2014 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

arm64: vdso: move data page before code pages

Andy pointed out that binutils generates additional sections in the vdso
image (e.g. section string table) which, if our .text section gets big
enough, could cross a page boundary and end up screwing up the location
where the kernel expects to put the data page.

This patch solves the issue in the same manner as x86_32, by moving the
data page before the code pages.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>


# 9031fefd 05-Mar-2012 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

arm64: VDSO support

This patch adds VDSO support for 64-bit applications. The VDSO code is
currently used for sys_rt_sigreturn() and optimised gettimeofday()
(using the user-accessible generic counter).

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>