From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: elver@google.com
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Subject: [PATCH] sh: Implement _THIS_IP_ using inline asm
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 14:31:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260521123205.146268-1-elver@google.com> (raw)
Both GCC [1] and Clang [2] consider the generic version of _THIS_IP_ to
be broken:
#define _THIS_IP_ ({ __label__ __here; __here: (unsigned long)&&__here; })
In particular, the address of a label is only expected to be used with a
computed goto.
While the generic version more or less works today, it is known to be
brittle and may break with current and future optimizations. For
example, Clang -O2 always returns 1 when this function is inlined:
static inline unsigned long get_ip(void)
{ return ({ __label__ __here; __here: (unsigned long)&&__here; }); }
Fix it by overriding _THIS_IP_ in <asm/linkage.h> (which is included by
<linux/instruction_pointer.h>) using an architecture-specific inline asm
version. Additionally, avoiding taking the address of a label prevents
compilers from emitting spurious indirect branch targets (e.g. ENDBR or
BTI) under control-flow integrity schemes.
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120071 [1]
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/138272 [2]
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
---
arch/sh/include/asm/linkage.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/linkage.h
index 7c2fa27a43f8..af56b38b6001 100644
--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/linkage.h
+++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/linkage.h
@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@
#define __ALIGN .balign 4
#define __ALIGN_STR ".balign 4"
+#define _THIS_IP_ ({ unsigned long __ip; asm volatile("mova 1f, %0\n1:" : "=z" (__ip)); __ip; })
+
#endif
--
2.54.0.746.g67dd491aae-goog
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