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Currently, the .got section is placed within the output section .text. However, when .got is non-empty, the SHF_WRITE flag is set for .text when linked by lld. GNU ld recognizes .text as a special section and ignores the SHF_WRITE flag. By renaming .text, we can also get the SHF_WRITE flag. The kernel has performed R_AARCH64_RELATIVE resolving very early, and can then assume that .got is read-only. Let's move .got to the vmlinux_rodata pseudo-segment. As Ard Biesheuvel notes: "This matters to consumers of the vmlinux ELF representation of the kernel image, such as syzkaller, which disregards writable PT_LOAD segments when resolving code symbols. The kernel itself does not care about this distinction, but given that the GOT contains data and not code, it does not require executable permissions, and therefore does not belong in .text to begin with." Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502074105.1541926-1-maskray@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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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.