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Subject[tip:core/objtool] objtool: Add STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD() macro
Commit-ID:  9a99417acbad99ba6c6a9389b45a53a4d002bb7e
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/9a99417acbad99ba6c6a9389b45a53a4d002bb7e
Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:22:35 -0600
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:35:10 +0100

objtool: Add STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD() macro

Add a new macro, STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(), which is used to denote a
function which does something unusual related to its stack frame. Use
of the macro prevents objtool from emitting a false positive warning.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/34487a17b23dba43c50941599d47054a9584b219.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 ++++-
include/linux/frame.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 92dc211..13fa0ad 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -343,7 +343,10 @@ SECTIONS

/* Sections to be discarded */
DISCARDS
- /DISCARD/ : { *(.eh_frame) }
+ /DISCARD/ : {
+ *(.eh_frame)
+ *(__func_stack_frame_non_standard)
+ }
}


diff --git a/include/linux/frame.h b/include/linux/frame.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6baaba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/frame.h
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_FRAME_H
+#define _LINUX_FRAME_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
+/*
+ * This macro marks the given function's stack frame as "non-standard", which
+ * tells objtool to ignore the function when doing stack metadata validation.
+ * It should only be used in special cases where you're 100% sure it won't
+ * affect the reliability of frame pointers and kernel stack traces.
+ *
+ * For more information, see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
+ */
+#define STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(func) \
+ static void __used __section(__func_stack_frame_non_standard) \
+ *__func_stack_frame_non_standard_##func = func
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION */
+
+#define STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(func)
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION */
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_FRAME_H */
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