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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2014-06-24 13:46:53 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-06-24 13:53:57 -0700
commit6a89d71078dad9b1c49ccdf1ffa656fbe36ccd1e (patch)
tree0d5e84135369f337c8034e39599c2bb5fe52b34a /arch/x86/vdso
parent46b57a76930f01ebf31230ed35af5beeccb5ad95 (diff)
x86/vdso: Error out in vdso2c if DT_RELA is present
vdso2c was checking for various types of relocations to detect when the vdso had undefined symbols or was otherwise dependent on relocation at load time. Undefined symbols in the vdso would fail if accessed at runtime, and certain implementation errors (e.g. branch profiling or incorrect symbol visibilities) could result in data access through the GOT that requires relocations. This could be as simple as: extern char foo; return foo; Without some kind of visibility control, the compiler would assume that foo could be interposed at load time and would generate a relocation. x86-64 and x32 (as opposed to i386) use explicit-addent (RELA) instead of implicit-addent (REL) relocations for data access, and vdso2c forgot to detect those. Whether these bad relocations would actually fail at runtime depends on what the linker sticks in the unrelocated references. Nonetheless, these relocations have no business existing in the vDSO and should be fixed rather than silently ignored. This error could trigger on some configurations due to branch profiling. The previous patch fixed that. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/74ef0c00b4d2a3b573e00a4113874e62f772e348.1403642755.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/vdso')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h
index f42e2ddc663d..df95a2fdff73 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static void BITSFUNC(go)(void *addr, size_t len,
for (i = 0; dyn + i < dyn_end &&
GET_LE(&dyn[i].d_tag) != DT_NULL; i++) {
typeof(dyn[i].d_tag) tag = GET_LE(&dyn[i].d_tag);
- if (tag == DT_REL || tag == DT_RELSZ ||
+ if (tag == DT_REL || tag == DT_RELSZ || tag == DT_RELA ||
tag == DT_RELENT || tag == DT_TEXTREL)
fail("vdso image contains dynamic relocations\n");
}