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Subject[RFC PATCH 1/9] kernel: add support for patchable function pointers
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Add a function pointer abstraction that can be implemented by the arch
in a manner that avoids the downsides of function pointers, i.e., the
fact that they are typically located in a writable data section, and
their vulnerability to Spectre like defects.

The FFP (or fast function pointer) is callable as a function, since
the generic incarnation is simply that. However, due to the fact that
C does not distinguish between functions and function pointers at the
call site, the architecture can instead emit it as a patchable sequence
of instructions consisting of ordinary branches.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
---
arch/Kconfig | 3 ++
include/linux/ffp.h | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 6801123932a5..2af3442a61d3 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -862,6 +862,9 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
kernels.

+config HAVE_ARCH_FFP
+ bool
+
source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"

source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig"
diff --git a/include/linux/ffp.h b/include/linux/ffp.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8fc3b4c9b38f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/ffp.h
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+
+#ifndef __LINUX_FFP_H
+#define __LINUX_FFP_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_FFP
+#include <asm/ffp.h>
+#else
+
+struct ffp {
+ void (**fn)(void);
+ void (*default_fn)(void);
+};
+
+#define DECLARE_FFP(_fn, _def) \
+ extern typeof(_def) *_fn; \
+ extern struct ffp const __ffp_ ## _fn
+
+#define DEFINE_FFP(_fn, _def) \
+ typeof(_def) *_fn = &_def; \
+ struct ffp const __ffp_ ## _fn \
+ = { (void(**)(void))&_fn, (void(*)(void))&_def }; \
+ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ffp_ ## _fn)
+
+static inline void ffp_set_target(const struct ffp *m, void *new_fn)
+{
+ WRITE_ONCE(*m->fn, new_fn);
+}
+
+static inline void ffp_reset_target(const struct ffp *m)
+{
+ WRITE_ONCE(*m->fn, m->default_fn);
+}
+
+#endif
+
+#define SET_FFP(_fn, _new) ffp_set_target(&__ffp_ ## _fn, _new)
+#define RESET_FFP(_fn) ffp_reset_target(&__ffp_ ## _fn)
+
+#endif
--
2.11.0
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