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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>2022-08-18 14:39:27 -0700
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-08-19 04:05:42 -0400
commite27e5bea956ce4d3eb15112de5fa5a3b77c2f488 (patch)
tree3eabfad0e98bac95b5ec1a39d81f9f134ff18a80
parent20ec3ebd707c77fb9b11b37193449193d4649f33 (diff)
x86/ibt, objtool: Add IBT_NOSEAL()
Add a macro which prevents a function from getting sealed if there are no compile-time references to it. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Message-Id: <20220818213927.e44fmxkoq4yj6ybn@treble> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h11
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/check.c3
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h
index 689880eca9ba..9b08082a5d9f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h
@@ -31,6 +31,16 @@
#define __noendbr __attribute__((nocf_check))
+/*
+ * Create a dummy function pointer reference to prevent objtool from marking
+ * the function as needing to be "sealed" (i.e. ENDBR converted to NOP by
+ * apply_ibt_endbr()).
+ */
+#define IBT_NOSEAL(fname) \
+ ".pushsection .discard.ibt_endbr_noseal\n\t" \
+ _ASM_PTR fname "\n\t" \
+ ".popsection\n\t"
+
static inline __attribute_const__ u32 gen_endbr(void)
{
u32 endbr;
@@ -84,6 +94,7 @@ extern __noendbr void ibt_restore(u64 save);
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#define ASM_ENDBR
+#define IBT_NOSEAL(name)
#define __noendbr
diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index 0cec74da7ffe..91678252a9b6 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -4096,7 +4096,8 @@ static int validate_ibt(struct objtool_file *file)
* These sections can reference text addresses, but not with
* the intent to indirect branch to them.
*/
- if (!strncmp(sec->name, ".discard", 8) ||
+ if ((!strncmp(sec->name, ".discard", 8) &&
+ strcmp(sec->name, ".discard.ibt_endbr_noseal")) ||
!strncmp(sec->name, ".debug", 6) ||
!strcmp(sec->name, ".altinstructions") ||
!strcmp(sec->name, ".ibt_endbr_seal") ||