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Re-mmap executable segments if possible instead of using mprotect
to add PROT_BTI. This allows using BTI protection with security
policies that prevent mprotect with PROT_EXEC.
If the fd of the ELF module is not available because it was kernel
mapped then mprotect is used and failures are ignored. To protect
the main executable even when mprotect is filtered the linux kernel
will have to be changed to add PROT_BTI to it.
The delayed failure reporting is mainly needed because currently
_dl_process_gnu_properties does not propagate failures such that
the required cleanups happen. Using the link_map_machine struct for
error propagation is not ideal, but this seemed to be the least
intrusive solution.
Fixes bug 26831.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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To handle GNU property notes on aarch64 some segments need to
be mmaped again, so the fd of the loaded ELF module is needed.
When the fd is not available (kernel loaded modules), then -1
is passed.
The fd is passed to both _dl_process_pt_gnu_property and
_dl_process_pt_note for consistency. Target specific note
processing functions are updated accordingly.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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Binaries can opt-in to using BTI via an ELF object file marking.
The dynamic linker has to then mprotect the executable segments
with PROT_BTI. In case of static linked executables or in case
of the dynamic linker itself, PROT_BTI protection is done by the
operating system.
On AArch64 glibc uses PT_GNU_PROPERTY instead of PT_NOTE to check
the properties of a binary because PT_NOTE can be unreliable with
old linkers (old linkers just append the notes of input objects
together and add them to the output without checking them for
consistency which means multiple incompatible GNU property notes
can be present in PT_NOTE).
BTI property is handled in the loader even if glibc is not built
with BTI support, so in theory user code can be BTI protected
independently of glibc. In practice though user binaries are not
marked with the BTI property if glibc has no support because the
static linked libc objects (crt files, libc_nonshared.a) are
unmarked.
This patch relies on Linux userspace API that is not yet in a
linux release but in v5.8-rc1 so scheduled to be in Linux 5.8.
Co-authored-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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