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Subject[tip: x86/core] x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding
The following commit has been merged into the x86/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: b341b20d648bb7e9a3307c33163e7399f0913e66
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/b341b20d648bb7e9a3307c33163e7399f0913e66
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:08:19 +02:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:44:09 +01:00

x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding

When code is compiled with:

-fpatchable-function-entry=${PADDING_BYTES},${PADDING_BYTES}

functions will have PADDING_BYTES of NOP in front of them. Unwinders
and other things that symbolize code locations will typically
attribute these bytes to the preceding function.

Given that these bytes nominally belong to the following symbol this
mis-attribution is confusing.

Inspired by the fact that CFI_CLANG emits __cfi_##name symbols to
claim these bytes, use objtool to emit __pfx_##name symbols to do
the same when CFI_CLANG is not used.

This then shows the callthunk for symbol 'name' as:

__pfx_##name+0x6/0x10

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221028194453.592512209@infradead.org
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ++++
scripts/Makefile.lib | 1 +
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index b52ad13..32818aa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2471,6 +2471,10 @@ config CALL_THUNKS
def_bool n
select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_16B

+config PREFIX_SYMBOLS
+ def_bool y
+ depends on CALL_THUNKS && !CFI_CLANG
+
menuconfig SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS
bool "Mitigations for speculative execution vulnerabilities"
default y
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 85f0275..2e03bcb 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ objtool-args-$(CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION) += --stackval
objtool-args-$(CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE) += --static-call
objtool-args-$(CONFIG_HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION) += --uaccess
objtool-args-$(CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) += --no-unreachable
+objtool-args-$(CONFIG_PREFIX_SYMBOLS) += --prefix=$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_PADDING_BYTES)

objtool-args = $(objtool-args-y) \
$(if $(delay-objtool), --link) \
\
 
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