x86/vdso: Hack to keep 64-bit Go programs working

The Go runtime has a buggy vDSO parser that currently segfaults.
This writes an empty SHT_DYNSYM entry that causes Go's runtime to
malfunction by thinking that the vDSO is empty rather than
malfunctioning by running off the end and segfaulting.

This affects x86-64 only as far as we know, so we do not need this for
the i386 and x32 vdsos.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d10618176c4bd39b457a5e85c497295c90cab1bc.1402620737.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>

arch/x86/vdso/Makefile

@@ -15,12 +15,8 @@ vdso-install-$(VDSO32-y)	+= $(vdso32-images)
 
 
 # files to link into the vdso
-vobjs-y := vdso-note.o vclock_gettime.o vgetcpu.o
-
-vobjs-$(VDSOX32-y) += $(vobjx32s-compat)
-
-# Filter out x32 objects.
-vobj64s := $(filter-out $(vobjx32s-compat),$(vobjs-y))
+vobjs-y := vdso-note.o vclock_gettime.o vgetcpu.o vdso-fakesections.o
+vobjs-nox32 := vdso-fakesections.o
 
 # files to link into kernel
 obj-y				+= vma.o
@@ -34,7 +30,7 @@ vdso_img-$(VDSO32-y)		+= 32-sysenter
 
 obj-$(VDSO32-y)			+= vdso32-setup.o
 
-vobjs := $(foreach F,$(vobj64s),$(obj)/$F)
+vobjs := $(foreach F,$(vobjs-y),$(obj)/$F)
 
 $(obj)/vdso.o: $(obj)/vdso.so
 
@@ -104,7 +100,13 @@ VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdsox32.lds = -Wl,-m,elf32_x86_64 \
 			   -Wl,-z,max-page-size=4096 \
 			   -Wl,-z,common-page-size=4096
 
-vobjx32s-y := $(vobj64s:.o=-x32.o)
+# 64-bit objects to re-brand as x32
+vobjs64-for-x32 := $(filter-out $(vobjs-nox32),$(vobjs-y))
+
+# x32-rebranded versions
+vobjx32s-y := $(vobjs64-for-x32:.o=-x32.o)
+
+# same thing, but in the output directory
 vobjx32s := $(foreach F,$(vobjx32s-y),$(obj)/$F)
 
 # Convert 64bit object file to x32 for x32 vDSO.

arch/x86/vdso/vdso-fakesections.c

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 Andy Lutomirski
+ * Subject to the GNU Public License, v.2
+ *
+ * Hack to keep broken Go programs working.
+ *
+ * The Go runtime had a couple of bugs: it would read the section table to try
+ * to figure out how many dynamic symbols there were (it shouldn't have looked
+ * at the section table at all) and, if there were no SHT_SYNDYM section table
+ * entry, it would use an uninitialized value for the number of symbols.  As a
+ * workaround, we supply a minimal section table.  vdso2c will adjust the
+ * in-memory image so that "vdso_fake_sections" becomes the section table.
+ *
+ * The bug was introduced by:
+ * https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=56ea40aac72b (2012-08-31)
+ * and is being addressed in the Go runtime in this issue:
+ * https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=8197
+ */
+
+#ifndef __x86_64__
+#error This hack is specific to the 64-bit vDSO
+#endif
+
+#include <linux/elf.h>
+
+extern const __visible struct elf64_shdr vdso_fake_sections[];
+const __visible struct elf64_shdr vdso_fake_sections[] = {
+	{
+		.sh_type = SHT_DYNSYM,
+		.sh_entsize = sizeof(Elf64_Sym),
+	}
+};

arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ static void GOFUNC(void *addr, size_t len, FILE *outfile, const char *name)
 	const char *secstrings;
 	uint64_t syms[NSYMS] = {};
 
+	uint64_t fake_sections_value = 0, fake_sections_size = 0;
+
 	Elf_Phdr *pt = (Elf_Phdr *)(addr + GET_LE(&hdr->e_phoff));
 
 	/* Walk the segment table. */
@@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ static void GOFUNC(void *addr, size_t len, FILE *outfile, const char *name)
 			GET_LE(&symtab_hdr->sh_entsize) * i;
 		const char *name = addr + GET_LE(&strtab_hdr->sh_offset) +
 			GET_LE(&sym->st_name);
+
 		for (k = 0; k < NSYMS; k++) {
 			if (!strcmp(name, required_syms[k])) {
 				if (syms[k]) {
@@ -93,6 +96,13 @@ static void GOFUNC(void *addr, size_t len, FILE *outfile, const char *name)
 				syms[k] = GET_LE(&sym->st_value);
 			}
 		}
+
+		if (!strcmp(name, "vdso_fake_sections")) {
+			if (fake_sections_value)
+				fail("duplicate vdso_fake_sections\n");
+			fake_sections_value = GET_LE(&sym->st_value);
+			fake_sections_size = GET_LE(&sym->st_size);
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* Validate mapping addresses. */
@@ -112,11 +122,14 @@ static void GOFUNC(void *addr, size_t len, FILE *outfile, const char *name)
 	if (syms[sym_end_mapping] % 4096)
 		fail("end_mapping must be a multiple of 4096\n");
 
-	/* Remove sections. */
-	hdr->e_shoff = 0;
-	hdr->e_shentsize = 0;
-	hdr->e_shnum = 0;
-	hdr->e_shstrndx = SHN_UNDEF; /* SHN_UNDEF == 0 */
+	/* Remove sections or use fakes */
+	if (fake_sections_size % sizeof(Elf_Shdr))
+		fail("vdso_fake_sections size is not a multiple of %ld\n",
+		     (long)sizeof(Elf_Shdr));
+	PUT_LE(&hdr->e_shoff, fake_sections_value);
+	PUT_LE(&hdr->e_shentsize, fake_sections_value ? sizeof(Elf_Shdr) : 0);
+	PUT_LE(&hdr->e_shnum, fake_sections_size / sizeof(Elf_Shdr));
+	PUT_LE(&hdr->e_shstrndx, SHN_UNDEF);
 
 	if (!name) {
 		fwrite(addr, load_size, 1, outfile);