[v5] Mips support for PT_GNU_STACK

From: "Dragan Mladjenovic" <dmladjenovic@wavecomp.com>

Hello everyone,

This is updated v4 version of the patch as per suggestion in [1].

Best regards,

Dragan

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-08/msg00508.html

2019-08-21  Dragan Mladjenovic  <dmladjenovic@wavecomp.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile (test-xfail-check-execstack):
	Move under mips-has-gnustack != yes.
	(CFLAGS-.o*, ASFLAGS-.o*): New rules.
	Apply -Wa,-execstack if mips-force-execstack == yes.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure: Regenerated.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.ac (mips-force-execstack):
	New var. Set to yes for hard-float builds with minimum_kernel < 4.8.0
	or minimum_kernel not set at all.
	(mips-has-gnustack): New var.
	Use value of libc_cv_as_noexecstack if mips-force-execstack != yes,
	otherwise set to no.
---
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile     | 21 +++++++++++++++-----
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.ac | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Dragan Mladjenovic wrote:

> From: "Dragan Mladjenovic" <dmladjenovic@wavecomp.com>
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> This is updated v4 version of the patch as per suggestion in [1].

I think this is OK; if you need someone to commit it for you, could you 
please send a self-contained version with the complete commit message 
included?  (It's best to include the commit message with every version of 
a patch, in a form that is fully updated for that patch version, with 
anything not intended to go in the commit message, such as information 
about differences from previous patch versions, after "---" or another 
such marker known to "git am".)

Linux/Mips kernels prior to 4.8 could potentially crash the user
process when doing FPU emulation while running on non-executable
user stack.

Currently, gcc doesn't emit .note.GNU-stack for mips, but that will
change in the future. To ensure that glibc can be used with such
future gcc, without silently resulting in binaries that might crash
in runtime, this patch forces RWX stack for all built objects if
configured to run against minimum kernel version less than 4.8.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
	(test-xfail-check-execstack):
	Move under mips-has-gnustack != yes.
	(CFLAGS-.o*, ASFLAGS-.o*): New rules.
	Apply -Wa,-execstack if mips-force-execstack == yes.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure: Regenerated.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.ac
	(mips-force-execstack): New var.
	Set to yes for hard-float builds with minimum_kernel < 4.8.0
	or minimum_kernel not set at all.
	(mips-has-gnustack): New var.
	Use value of libc_cv_as_noexecstack
	if mips-force-execstack != yes, otherwise set to no.
---

Hello again,

I took a liberty to include regenerated configure this time.
Is this patch as it is suitable for backporting? It is not a
prerequisite for gcc the patch, but it would be nice if a couple
of prior versions of glibc would be made "safe" also.


 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile     | 21 ++++++++++++----
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure    | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.ac | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
index 8217f42..03044e7 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
@@ -63,14 +63,25 @@ sysdep-dl-routines += dl-static
 
 sysdep_routines += dl-vdso
 endif
-
-# Supporting non-executable stacks on MIPS requires changes to both
-# the Linux kernel and glibc.  See
-# <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00567.html> and
-# <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00719.html>.
+# If the compiler doesn't use GNU.stack note,
+# this test is expected to fail.
+ifneq ($(mips-has-gnustack),yes)
 test-xfail-check-execstack = yes
 endif
+endif
 
 ifeq ($(subdir),stdlib)
 gen-as-const-headers += ucontext_i.sym
 endif
+
+ifeq ($(mips-force-execstack),yes)
+CFLAGS-.o += -Wa,-execstack
+CFLAGS-.os += -Wa,-execstack
+CFLAGS-.op += -Wa,-execstack
+CFLAGS-.oS += -Wa,-execstack
+
+ASFLAGS-.o += -Wa,-execstack
+ASFLAGS-.os += -Wa,-execstack
+ASFLAGS-.op += -Wa,-execstack
+ASFLAGS-.oS += -Wa,-execstack
+endif
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure
index 1ee7f41..25f98e0 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure
@@ -475,3 +475,44 @@ if test -z "$arch_minimum_kernel"; then
     arch_minimum_kernel=4.5.0
   fi
 fi
+
+# Check if we are supposed to run on kernels older than 4.8.0. If so,
+# force executable stack to avoid potential runtime problems with fpu
+# emulation.
+# NOTE: The check below assumes that in absence of user-provided minumum_kernel
+# we will default to arch_minimum_kernel which is currently less than 4.8.0 for
+# all known configurations. If this changes, the check must be updated.
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether the compiler must use executable stack" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether the compiler must use executable stack... " >&6; }
+if ${libc_cv_mips_force_execstack+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  libc_cv_mips_force_execstack=no
+  if test $libc_mips_float = hard; then
+    if test -n "$minimum_kernel"; then
+
+       min_version=$((`echo "$minimum_kernel.0.0.0" | sed 's/\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1 \* 65536 + \2 \* 256 + \3/'`))
+
+       if test $min_version -lt 264192; then
+         libc_cv_mips_force_execstack=yes
+       fi
+    else
+      libc_cv_mips_force_execstack=yes
+    fi
+  fi
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $libc_cv_mips_force_execstack" >&5
+$as_echo "$libc_cv_mips_force_execstack" >&6; }
+
+libc_mips_has_gnustack=$libc_cv_as_noexecstack
+
+if test $libc_cv_mips_force_execstack = yes; then
+  libc_mips_has_gnustack=no
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: forcing executable stack for pre-4.8.0 Linux kernels" >&5
+$as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: forcing executable stack for pre-4.8.0 Linux kernels" >&2;}
+fi
+
+config_vars="$config_vars
+mips-force-execstack = ${libc_cv_mips_force_execstack}"
+config_vars="$config_vars
+mips-has-gnustack = ${libc_mips_has_gnustack}"
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.ac b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.ac
index 9147aa4..3db1b32 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.ac
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.ac
@@ -134,3 +134,35 @@ if test -z "$arch_minimum_kernel"; then
     arch_minimum_kernel=4.5.0
   fi
 fi
+
+# Check if we are supposed to run on kernels older than 4.8.0. If so,
+# force executable stack to avoid potential runtime problems with fpu
+# emulation.
+# NOTE: The check below assumes that in absence of user-provided minumum_kernel
+# we will default to arch_minimum_kernel which is currently less than 4.8.0 for
+# all known configurations. If this changes, the check must be updated.
+AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether the compiler must use executable stack],
+        libc_cv_mips_force_execstack, [dnl
+libc_cv_mips_force_execstack=no
+  if test $libc_mips_float = hard; then
+    if test -n "$minimum_kernel"; then
+       changequote(,)
+       min_version=$((`echo "$minimum_kernel.0.0.0" | sed 's/\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1 \* 65536 + \2 \* 256 + \3/'`))
+       changequote([,])
+       if test $min_version -lt 264192; then
+         libc_cv_mips_force_execstack=yes
+       fi
+    else
+      libc_cv_mips_force_execstack=yes
+    fi
+  fi])
+
+libc_mips_has_gnustack=$libc_cv_as_noexecstack
+
+if test $libc_cv_mips_force_execstack = yes; then
+  libc_mips_has_gnustack=no
+  AC_MSG_WARN([forcing executable stack for pre-4.8.0 Linux kernels])
+fi
+
+LIBC_CONFIG_VAR([mips-force-execstack],[${libc_cv_mips_force_execstack}])
+LIBC_CONFIG_VAR([mips-has-gnustack],[${libc_mips_has_gnustack}])

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, Dragan Mladjenovic wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
> I took a liberty to include regenerated configure this time.
> Is this patch as it is suitable for backporting? It is not a
> prerequisite for gcc the patch, but it would be nice if a couple
> of prior versions of glibc would be made "safe" also.

Thanks, I've committed this patch.  I think it's suitable for backporting; 
you could propose a backport on libc-stable.