From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 20:34:55 +0300

Subject: [PATCH] support modules without symbol table

all_video module does not have any code or data and exists solely for

.moddeps section to pull in dependencies. This makes all symbols unneeded.

While in current binutils (last released version as of this commit is 2.26)

``strip --strip-unneeded'' unintentionally adds section symbols for each

existing section, this behavior was considered a bug and changed in commit

14f2c699ddca1e2f706342dffc59a6c7e23e844c to completely strip symbol table

in this case.

Older binutils (verified with 2.17) and some other toolchains (at least

elftoolchain r3223M), both used in FreeBSD, remove symbol table in all_video

as well.

Relax run-time check and do not return error for modules without symbol table.

Add additional checks to module verifier to make sure such modules

a) have non-empty .moddeps section. Without either externally visible symbols

or .moddeps modules are completely useless and should not be built.

b) do not have any relocations.

Closes: 46986

v2: add run-time check for empty symbol table if relocations are present as

    suggested by Vladimir.

---

 grub-core/kern/dl.c           |  8 +++++++-

 util/grub-module-verifierXX.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-

 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/grub-core/kern/dl.c b/grub-core/kern/dl.c

index b0b0405fcbe..c45afc64950 100644

--- a/grub-core/kern/dl.c

+++ b/grub-core/kern/dl.c

@@ -341,8 +341,11 @@ grub_dl_resolve_symbols (grub_dl_t mod, Elf_Ehdr *e)

     if (s->sh_type == SHT_SYMTAB)

       break;

+  /* Module without symbol table may still be used to pull in dependencies.

+     We verify at build time that such modules do not contain any relocations

+     that may reference symbol table. */

   if (i == e->e_shnum)

-    return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_MODULE, N_("no symbol table"));

+    return GRUB_ERR_NONE;

 #ifdef GRUB_MODULES_MACHINE_READONLY

   mod->symtab = grub_malloc (s->sh_size);

@@ -584,6 +587,9 @@ grub_dl_relocate_symbols (grub_dl_t mod, void *ehdr)

 	if (seg)

 	  {

+	    if (!mod->symtab)

+	      return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_MODULE, "relocation without symbol table");

+

 	    err = grub_arch_dl_relocate_symbols (mod, ehdr, s, seg);

 	    if (err)

 	      return err;

diff --git a/util/grub-module-verifierXX.c b/util/grub-module-verifierXX.c

index f612d51f389..9c04caa63b4 100644

--- a/util/grub-module-verifierXX.c

+++ b/util/grub-module-verifierXX.c

@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ get_symtab (const struct grub_module_verifier_arch *arch, Elf_Ehdr *e, Elf_Word

       break;

   if (i == grub_target_to_host16 (e->e_shnum))

-    grub_util_error ("no symbol table");

+    return NULL;

   sym = (Elf_Sym *) ((char *) e + grub_target_to_host (s->sh_offset));

   *size = grub_target_to_host (s->sh_size);

@@ -191,7 +191,21 @@ check_symbols (const struct grub_module_verifier_arch *arch, Elf_Ehdr *e)

   Elf_Word size, entsize;

   unsigned i;

+  /* Module without symbol table and without .moddeps section is useless

+     at boot time, so catch it early to prevent build errors */

   sym = get_symtab (arch, e, &size, &entsize);

+  if (!sym)

+    {

+      Elf_Shdr *s = find_section (arch, e, ".moddeps");

+

+      if (!s)

+	grub_util_error ("no symbol table and no .moddeps section");

+

+      if (!s->sh_size)

+	grub_util_error ("no symbol table and empty .moddeps section");

+

+      return;

+    }

   for (i = 0;

        i < size / entsize;

@@ -243,6 +257,8 @@ section_check_relocations (const struct grub_module_verifier_arch *arch, void *e

   Elf_Word symtabsize, symtabentsize;

   symtab = get_symtab (arch, ehdr, &symtabsize, &symtabentsize);

+  if (!symtab)

+    grub_util_error ("relocation without symbol table");

   for (rel = (Elf_Rel *) ((char *) ehdr + grub_target_to_host (s->sh_offset)),

 	 max = (Elf_Rel *) ((char *) rel + grub_target_to_host (s->sh_size));