From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
x86@kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] x86/cfi: Fix a few kCFI issues found with GCC
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:04:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261012090424.i.497-kees@kernel.org> (raw)
Hi!
While testing x86 kernels built by GCC with the coming kCFI patches I
tripped over three problems. Since the kCFI call sequence was optimized
in v7.3-rc1, the trap handler decodes the check one byte off, so a
kCFI failure in a CONFIG_FINEIBT=y kernel running in kCFI mode reports
whatever %rbx holds as the target, with Clang as well as GCC (1/3). GNU
as warns about the "cs" prefix in the FineIBT paranoid caller template,
which Clang's integrated assembler accepts silently (2/3). And objtool's
kCFI check treats GCC's jump-table jump for the BPF interpreter's computed
goto as an unchecked indirect call (3/3).
Thanks!
-Kees
Kees Cook (3):
x86/kcfi: Decode the kCFI check from the trap address
x86/kcfi: Emit the FineIBT paranoid "cs" prefix as a byte
objtool: Skip jump table jumps in the kCFI indirect call check
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 3 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/cfi.c | 14 +++++++-------
tools/objtool/check.c | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-12 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-12 9:04 Kees Cook [this message]
2026-10-12 9:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/kcfi: Decode the kCFI check from the trap address Kees Cook
2026-10-12 9:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/kcfi: Emit the FineIBT paranoid "cs" prefix as a byte Kees Cook
2026-10-12 9:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-10-12 19:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2026-10-13 8:07 ` Kees Cook
2026-10-12 9:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] objtool: Skip jump table jumps in the kCFI indirect call check Kees Cook
2026-10-12 9:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-10-12 18:41 ` Kees Cook
2026-10-13 6:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-10-13 8:37 ` Kees Cook
2026-10-13 9:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-10-13 9:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
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