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Nathan reported objtool failing with the following messages:

  warning: objtool: no non-local symbols !?
  warning: objtool: gelf_update_symshndx: invalid section index

The problem is due to commit 4abff6d ("objtool: Fix code relocs
vs weak symbols") failing to consider the case where an object would
have no non-local symbols.

The problem that commit tries to address is adding a STB_LOCAL symbol
to the symbol table in light of the ELF spec's requirement that:

  In each symbol table, all symbols with STB_LOCAL binding preced the
  weak and global symbols.  As ``Sections'' above describes, a symbol
  table section's sh_info section header member holds the symbol table
  index for the first non-local symbol.

The approach taken is to find this first non-local symbol, move that
to the end and then re-use the freed spot to insert a new local symbol
and increment sh_info.

Except it never considered the case of object files without global
symbols and got a whole bunch of details wrong -- so many in fact that
it is a wonder it ever worked :/

Specifically:

 - It failed to re-hash the symbol on the new index, so a subsequent
   find_symbol_by_index() would not find it at the new location and a
   query for the old location would now return a non-deterministic
   choice between the old and new symbol.

 - It failed to appreciate that the GElf wrappers are not a valid disk
   format (it works because GElf is basically Elf64 and we only
   support x86_64 atm.)

 - It failed to fully appreciate how horrible the libelf API really is
   and got the gelf_update_symshndx() call pretty much completely
   wrong; with the direct consequence that if inserting a second
   STB_LOCAL symbol would require moving the same STB_GLOBAL symbol
   again it would completely come unstuck.

Write a new elf_update_symbol() function that wraps all the magic
required to update or create a new symbol at a given index.

Specifically, gelf_update_sym*() require an @ndx argument that is
relative to the @DaTa argument; this means you have to manually
iterate the section data descriptor list and update @ndx.

Fixes: 4abff6d ("objtool: Fix code relocs vs weak symbols")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YoPCTEYjoPqE4ZxB@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Peter Zijlstra authored and gregkh committed Jun 9, 2022
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198 changes: 129 additions & 69 deletions tools/objtool/elf.c
Expand Up @@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ static void elf_add_symbol(struct elf *elf, struct symbol *sym)
struct list_head *entry;
struct rb_node *pnode;

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sym->pv_target);
sym->alias = sym;

sym->type = GELF_ST_TYPE(sym->sym.st_info);
sym->bind = GELF_ST_BIND(sym->sym.st_info);

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -435,8 +438,6 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf)
return -1;
}
memset(sym, 0, sizeof(*sym));
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sym->pv_target);
sym->alias = sym;

sym->idx = i;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -600,104 +601,146 @@ static void elf_dirty_reloc_sym(struct elf *elf, struct symbol *sym)
}

/*
* Move the first global symbol, as per sh_info, into a new, higher symbol
* index. This fees up the shndx for a new local symbol.
* The libelf API is terrible; gelf_update_sym*() takes a data block relative
* index value, *NOT* the symbol index. As such, iterate the data blocks and
* adjust index until it fits.
*
* If no data block is found, allow adding a new data block provided the index
* is only one past the end.
*/
static int elf_move_global_symbol(struct elf *elf, struct section *symtab,
struct section *symtab_shndx)
static int elf_update_symbol(struct elf *elf, struct section *symtab,
struct section *symtab_shndx, struct symbol *sym)
{
Elf_Data *data, *shndx_data = NULL;
Elf32_Word first_non_local;
struct symbol *sym;
Elf_Scn *s;

first_non_local = symtab->sh.sh_info;

sym = find_symbol_by_index(elf, first_non_local);
if (!sym) {
WARN("no non-local symbols !?");
return first_non_local;
}
Elf32_Word shndx = sym->sec ? sym->sec->idx : SHN_UNDEF;
Elf_Data *symtab_data = NULL, *shndx_data = NULL;
Elf64_Xword entsize = symtab->sh.sh_entsize;
int max_idx, idx = sym->idx;
Elf_Scn *s, *t = NULL;

s = elf_getscn(elf->elf, symtab->idx);
if (!s) {
WARN_ELF("elf_getscn");
return -1;
}

data = elf_newdata(s);
if (!data) {
WARN_ELF("elf_newdata");
return -1;
if (symtab_shndx) {
t = elf_getscn(elf->elf, symtab_shndx->idx);
if (!t) {
WARN_ELF("elf_getscn");
return -1;
}
}

data->d_buf = &sym->sym;
data->d_size = sizeof(sym->sym);
data->d_align = 1;
data->d_type = ELF_T_SYM;
for (;;) {
/* get next data descriptor for the relevant sections */
symtab_data = elf_getdata(s, symtab_data);
if (t)
shndx_data = elf_getdata(t, shndx_data);

sym->idx = symtab->sh.sh_size / sizeof(sym->sym);
elf_dirty_reloc_sym(elf, sym);
/* end-of-list */
if (!symtab_data) {
void *buf;

symtab->sh.sh_info += 1;
symtab->sh.sh_size += data->d_size;
symtab->changed = true;
if (idx) {
/* we don't do holes in symbol tables */
WARN("index out of range");
return -1;
}

if (symtab_shndx) {
s = elf_getscn(elf->elf, symtab_shndx->idx);
if (!s) {
WARN_ELF("elf_getscn");
/* if @idx == 0, it's the next contiguous entry, create it */
symtab_data = elf_newdata(s);
if (t)
shndx_data = elf_newdata(t);

buf = calloc(1, entsize);
if (!buf) {
WARN("malloc");
return -1;
}

symtab_data->d_buf = buf;
symtab_data->d_size = entsize;
symtab_data->d_align = 1;
symtab_data->d_type = ELF_T_SYM;

symtab->sh.sh_size += entsize;
symtab->changed = true;

if (t) {
shndx_data->d_buf = &sym->sec->idx;
shndx_data->d_size = sizeof(Elf32_Word);
shndx_data->d_align = sizeof(Elf32_Word);
shndx_data->d_type = ELF_T_WORD;

symtab_shndx->sh.sh_size += sizeof(Elf32_Word);
symtab_shndx->changed = true;
}

break;
}

/* empty blocks should not happen */
if (!symtab_data->d_size) {
WARN("zero size data");
return -1;
}

shndx_data = elf_newdata(s);
/* is this the right block? */
max_idx = symtab_data->d_size / entsize;
if (idx < max_idx)
break;

/* adjust index and try again */
idx -= max_idx;
}

/* something went side-ways */
if (idx < 0) {
WARN("negative index");
return -1;
}

/* setup extended section index magic and write the symbol */
if (shndx >= SHN_UNDEF && shndx < SHN_LORESERVE) {
sym->sym.st_shndx = shndx;
if (!shndx_data)
shndx = 0;
} else {
sym->sym.st_shndx = SHN_XINDEX;
if (!shndx_data) {
WARN_ELF("elf_newshndx_data");
WARN("no .symtab_shndx");
return -1;
}
}

shndx_data->d_buf = &sym->sec->idx;
shndx_data->d_size = sizeof(Elf32_Word);
shndx_data->d_align = 4;
shndx_data->d_type = ELF_T_WORD;

symtab_shndx->sh.sh_size += 4;
symtab_shndx->changed = true;
if (!gelf_update_symshndx(symtab_data, shndx_data, idx, &sym->sym, shndx)) {
WARN_ELF("gelf_update_symshndx");
return -1;
}

return first_non_local;
return 0;
}

static struct symbol *
elf_create_section_symbol(struct elf *elf, struct section *sec)
{
struct section *symtab, *symtab_shndx;
Elf_Data *shndx_data = NULL;
struct symbol *sym;
Elf32_Word shndx;
Elf32_Word first_non_local, new_idx;
struct symbol *sym, *old;

symtab = find_section_by_name(elf, ".symtab");
if (symtab) {
symtab_shndx = find_section_by_name(elf, ".symtab_shndx");
if (symtab_shndx)
shndx_data = symtab_shndx->data;
} else {
WARN("no .symtab");
return NULL;
}

sym = malloc(sizeof(*sym));
sym = calloc(1, sizeof(*sym));
if (!sym) {
perror("malloc");
return NULL;
}
memset(sym, 0, sizeof(*sym));

sym->idx = elf_move_global_symbol(elf, symtab, symtab_shndx);
if (sym->idx < 0) {
WARN("elf_move_global_symbol");
return NULL;
}

sym->name = sec->name;
sym->sec = sec;
Expand All @@ -707,24 +750,41 @@ elf_create_section_symbol(struct elf *elf, struct section *sec)
// st_other 0
// st_value 0
// st_size 0
shndx = sec->idx;
if (shndx >= SHN_UNDEF && shndx < SHN_LORESERVE) {
sym->sym.st_shndx = shndx;
if (!shndx_data)
shndx = 0;
} else {
sym->sym.st_shndx = SHN_XINDEX;
if (!shndx_data) {
WARN("no .symtab_shndx");

/*
* Move the first global symbol, as per sh_info, into a new, higher
* symbol index. This fees up a spot for a new local symbol.
*/
first_non_local = symtab->sh.sh_info;
new_idx = symtab->sh.sh_size / symtab->sh.sh_entsize;
old = find_symbol_by_index(elf, first_non_local);
if (old) {
old->idx = new_idx;

hlist_del(&old->hash);
elf_hash_add(symbol, &old->hash, old->idx);

elf_dirty_reloc_sym(elf, old);

if (elf_update_symbol(elf, symtab, symtab_shndx, old)) {
WARN("elf_update_symbol move");
return NULL;
}

new_idx = first_non_local;
}

if (!gelf_update_symshndx(symtab->data, shndx_data, sym->idx, &sym->sym, shndx)) {
WARN_ELF("gelf_update_symshndx");
sym->idx = new_idx;
if (elf_update_symbol(elf, symtab, symtab_shndx, sym)) {
WARN("elf_update_symbol");
return NULL;
}

/*
* Either way, we added a LOCAL symbol.
*/
symtab->sh.sh_info += 1;

elf_add_symbol(elf, sym);

return sym;
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