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Ard Biesheuvel 262b5cae67 x86/boot/compressed: Move .got.plt entries out of the .got section
The .got.plt section contains the part of the GOT which is used by PLT
entries, and which gets updated lazily by the dynamic loader when
function calls are dispatched through those PLT entries.

On fully linked binaries such as the kernel proper or the decompressor,
this never happens, and so in practice, the .got.plt section consists
only of the first 3 magic entries that are meant to point at the _DYNAMIC
section and at the fixup routine in the loader. However, since we don't
use a dynamic loader, those entries are never populated or used.

This means that treating those entries like ordinary GOT entries, and
updating their values based on the actual placement of the executable in
memory is completely pointless, and we can just ignore the .got.plt
section entirely, provided that it has no additional entries beyond
the first 3 ones.

So add an assertion in the linker script to ensure that this assumption
holds, and move the contents out of the [_got, _egot) memory range that
is modified by the GOT fixup routines.

While at it, drop the KEEP(), since it has no effect on the contents
of output sections that are created by the linker itself.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731230820.1742553-2-keescook@chromium.org
2020-08-14 12:52:34 +02:00
Documentation RTC for 5.9 2020-08-12 17:17:00 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch x86/boot/compressed: Move .got.plt entries out of the .got section 2020-08-14 12:52:34 +02:00
block A set of locking fixes and updates: 2020-08-10 19:07:44 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
drivers RTC for 5.9 2020-08-12 17:17:00 -07:00
fs Xiubo has completed his work on filesystem client metrics, they are 2020-08-12 12:51:31 -07:00
include RTC for 5.9 2020-08-12 17:17:00 -07:00
init A set of locking fixes and updates: 2020-08-10 19:07:44 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: remove the superfluous break 2020-08-12 10:58:02 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-08-12 11:24:12 -07:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: fix typo in the help text of CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT 2020-08-12 10:58:02 -07:00
mm mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code 2020-08-12 10:58:04 -07:00
net Xiubo has completed his work on filesystem client metrics, they are 2020-08-12 12:51:31 -07:00
samples Kbuild updates for v5.9 2020-08-09 14:10:26 -07:00
scripts PPC: 2020-08-12 12:25:06 -07:00
security Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-08-12 11:24:12 -07:00
sound sound updates for 5.9 2020-08-06 14:27:31 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-08-12 11:24:12 -07:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-08-12 11:24:12 -07:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: Add ZSTD-compressed files 2020-07-31 11:50:49 +02:00
.mailmap It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a 2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-23 14:53:58 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Here's some more updates that missed the last pull request because I 2020-08-12 12:19:49 -07:00
Makefile ./Makefile: add debug option to enable function aligned on 32 bytes 2020-08-12 10:57:59 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.