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Nick Desaulniers 013acaa597 x86: link vdso and boot with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments
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 <axboe@kernel.dk>
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-08-25 11:17:17 +02:00
arch x86: link vdso and boot with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments 2022-08-25 11:17:17 +02:00
block block: fix bio_clone_blkg_association() to associate with proper blkcg_gq 2022-06-14 18:11:50 +02:00
certs certs/blacklist_hashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2022-06-22 14:11:22 +02:00
crypto crypto: drbg - make reseeding from get_random_bytes() synchronous 2022-06-22 14:11:18 +02:00
Documentation x86/speculation: Add RSB VM Exit protections 2022-08-11 12:57:53 +02:00
drivers macintosh/adb: fix oob read in do_adb_query() function 2022-08-11 12:57:53 +02:00
fs ntfs: fix use-after-free in ntfs_ucsncmp() 2022-08-03 11:59:37 +02:00
include ipv6/addrconf: fix a null-ptr-deref bug for ip6_ptr 2022-08-03 11:59:39 +02:00
init random: handle latent entropy and command line from random_init() 2022-06-22 14:11:17 +02:00
ipc
kernel bpf: Verifer, adjust_scalar_min_max_vals to always call update_reg_bounds() 2022-08-11 12:57:51 +02:00
lib locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t 2022-07-29 17:14:17 +02:00
LICENSES
mm mm/mempolicy: fix uninit-value in mpol_rebind_policy() 2022-07-29 17:14:16 +02:00
net sctp: leave the err path free in sctp_stream_init to sctp_stream_free 2022-08-03 11:59:41 +02:00
samples
scripts modpost: fix section mismatch check for exported init/exit sections 2022-06-29 08:58:49 +02:00
security ima: remove the IMA_TEMPLATE Kconfig option 2022-07-29 17:14:16 +02:00
sound ALSA: memalloc: Align buffer allocations in page size 2022-07-29 17:14:18 +02:00
tools x86/speculation: Add RSB VM Exit protections 2022-08-11 12:57:53 +02:00
usr
virt KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy 2022-08-11 12:57:52 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: co-maintain random.c 2022-06-22 14:11:05 +02:00
Makefile Makefile: link with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments 2022-08-25 11:17:17 +02:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.