From: Guixiong Wei <weiguixiong@bytedance.com> stable inclusion from stable-v4.19.319 commit 2487db16d4b9faead07b7825d33294e9e783791d category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/IAMXCL CVE: NA Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... --------------------------- [ Upstream commit 76e9762d66373354b45c33b60e9a53ef2a3c5ff2 ] Commit: aaa8736370db ("x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section") ... only started ignoring the .notes sections in print_absolute_relocs(), but the same logic should also by applied in walk_relocs() to avoid such relocations. [ mingo: Fixed various typos in the changelog, removed extra curly braces from the code. ] Fixes: aaa8736370db ("x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section") Fixes: 5ead97c84fa7 ("xen: Core Xen implementation") Fixes: da1a679cde9b ("Add /sys/kernel/notes") Signed-off-by: Guixiong Wei <weiguixiong@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240317150547.24910-1-weiguixiong@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com> --- arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c index 3a6c8ebc8032..64c8a95cfea8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c +++ b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c @@ -664,6 +664,15 @@ static void walk_relocs(int (*process)(struct section *sec, Elf_Rel *rel, if (!(sec_applies->shdr.sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC)) { continue; } + + /* + * Do not perform relocations in .notes sections; any + * values there are meant for pre-boot consumption (e.g. + * startup_xen). + */ + if (sec_applies->shdr.sh_type == SHT_NOTE) + continue; + sh_symtab = sec_symtab->symtab; sym_strtab = sec_symtab->link->strtab; for (j = 0; j < sec->shdr.sh_size/sizeof(Elf_Rel); j++) { -- 2.20.1