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[v2,2/2] arm64: Kconfig: ptrauth: Add binutils version check to fix mismatch

Message ID 1585568499-21585-2-git-send-email-amit.kachhap@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [v2,1/2] init/kconfig: Add LD_VERSION Kconfig | expand

Commit Message

Amit Daniel Kachhap March 30, 2020, 11:41 a.m. UTC
Recent addition of ARM64_PTR_AUTH exposed a mismatch issue with binutils.
9.1+ versions of gcc inserts a section note .note.gnu.property but this
can be used properly by binutils version greater than 2.33.1. If older
binutils are used then the following warnings are generated,

aarch64-linux-ld: warning: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000
aarch64-linux-objdump: warning: arch/arm64/lib/csum.o: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000
aarch64-linux-nm: warning: .tmp_vmlinux1: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000

This patch enables ARM64_PTR_AUTH when gcc and binutils versions are
compatible with each other. Older gcc which do not insert such section
continue to work as before.

This scenario may not occur with clang as a recent commit 3b446c7d27ddd06
("arm64: Kconfig: verify binutils support for ARM64_PTR_AUTH") masks
binutils version lesser then 2.34.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
---
Changes since v1[1]:
 * Separated GCC and CLANG checks as suggested by Catalin.
 * Added comments in Kconfig entry.

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/26/626 

 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Catalin Marinas April 1, 2020, 12:28 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 05:11:39PM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> Recent addition of ARM64_PTR_AUTH exposed a mismatch issue with binutils.
> 9.1+ versions of gcc inserts a section note .note.gnu.property but this
> can be used properly by binutils version greater than 2.33.1. If older
> binutils are used then the following warnings are generated,
> 
> aarch64-linux-ld: warning: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000
> aarch64-linux-objdump: warning: arch/arm64/lib/csum.o: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000
> aarch64-linux-nm: warning: .tmp_vmlinux1: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000

I queued both patches for 5.7. Thanks.
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index e6712b6..4391a4f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1503,7 +1503,10 @@  config ARM64_PTR_AUTH
 	default y
 	depends on !KVM || ARM64_VHE
 	depends on (CC_HAS_SIGN_RETURN_ADDRESS || CC_HAS_BRANCH_PROT_PAC_RET) && AS_HAS_PAC
-	depends on CC_IS_GCC || (CC_IS_CLANG && AS_HAS_CFI_NEGATE_RA_STATE)
+	# GCC 9.1 version inserts a section note .note.gnu.property for PAC
+	# which can be used properly by binutils version 2.33.1 and higher.
+	depends on !CC_IS_GCC || GCC_VERSION < 90100 || LD_VERSION >= 233010000
+	depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_HAS_CFI_NEGATE_RA_STATE
 	depends on (!FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS)
 	help
 	  Pointer authentication (part of the ARMv8.3 Extensions) provides