Bug 2224049 - libaom: does not properly support CET
Summary: libaom: does not properly support CET
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: aom
Version: 39
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Multimedia SIG
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-07-19 16:41 UTC by Siddhesh Poyarekar
Modified: 2024-11-27 21:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2024-11-27 21:16:07 UTC
Type: Bug
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chromium.org aomedia 3466 0 None None None 2023-07-20 03:45:29 UTC

Description Siddhesh Poyarekar 2023-07-19 16:41:12 UTC
The assembly files in libaom (*.asm) get built with nasm and are not built with CET support. As a result the final library libaom.so does not get built with shadow stack and IBT markup. To enable shadow stack support one must:

1. Emit the ENDBR instruction at the top of every function that is the target of an indirect branch.

2. Add a .gnu.property note that indicates support for SHSTK and IBT, either by adding assembler directives (see /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/13/include/cet.h for example) or by forcing the annotation in the linker using -Wl,-z,shstk -Wl,-z,ibt

AFAICT, none of the assembler code switches stacks, but if it does, it would need a more involved fix to update the shadow stack pointer.

Without this, when Fedora is booted with a shadow stack enabled kernel (patches are currently in review upstream[1]), a number of php and python packages fail to build because of lacking SHSTK support in libaor.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Fabio Valentini 2023-07-19 18:23:48 UTC
I don't think any of the package maintainers are qualified to *correctly* do what's asked here (without introducing bugs), at least not without significant help from upstream. And since that upstream is Google ... well, I'm wouldn't be holding my breath.

Comment 2 Robert-André Mauchin 🐧 2023-07-20 03:45:30 UTC
Sent upstream: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/aomedia/issues/detail?id=3466

Comment 3 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 07:19:43 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.

Comment 4 loqs 2024-04-26 14:49:36 UTC
Would the packages still fail to build if Shadow Stack (SHSTK) support was added without adding Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) support?  Did you try such a build by adding `-Wl,-z,shstk` to the linker flags?

Comment 5 Aoife Moloney 2024-11-08 10:56:03 UTC
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