From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: cfi: Fix compilation corner case
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:37:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241108-fix-kcfi-bug-v1-1-f8497c4bccae@linaro.org> (raw)
When enabling expert mode CONFIG_EXPERT and using that power
user mode to disable the branch prediction hardening
!CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR, the picky assembly linker
in CLANG notices that some assembly in proc-v7.S does
not have corresponding C call sites, i.e. the prototypes
in proc-v7-bugs.c are enclosed in ifdef
CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR so this assembly:
SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START(cpu_v7_smc_switch_mm)
SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START(cpu_v7_hvc_switch_mm)
Results in:
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __kcfi_typeid_cpu_v7_smc_switch_mm
>>> referenced by proc-v7.S:94 (.../arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S:94)
>>> arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.o:(.text+0x108) in archive vmlinux.a
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __kcfi_typeid_cpu_v7_hvc_switch_mm
>>> referenced by proc-v7.S:105 (.../arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S:105)
>>> arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.o:(.text+0x124) in archive vmlinux.a
Fix this by adding an additional requirement that
CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR has to be enabled to compile
these assembly calls.
I suppose it wasn't a problem before because the linker is not
so picky that other assembly symbols are actually being
used.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202411041456.ZsoEiD7T-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
---
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
index 5fb9a6aecb00..2cd933342679 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START(cpu_v7_dcache_clean_area)
ret lr
SYM_FUNC_END(cpu_v7_dcache_clean_area)
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_PSCI
+#if defined(CONFIG_ARM_PSCI) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
.arch_extension sec
SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START(cpu_v7_smc_switch_mm)
stmfd sp!, {r0 - r3}
---
base-commit: 9852d85ec9d492ebef56dc5f229416c925758edc
change-id: 20241107-fix-kcfi-bug-ae3b08cbc167
Best regards,
--
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
next reply other threads:[~2024-11-08 7:39 UTC|newest]
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2024-11-08 7:37 Linus Walleij [this message]
2024-11-09 4:31 ` [PATCH] ARM: cfi: Fix compilation corner case Nathan Chancellor
2024-11-10 23:17 ` Linus Walleij
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