Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: avoid false-positive objtool warning in page_fault_oops()

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 09:30:41AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> When printing the oops for a VMAP_STACK overflow, the final call
> frompage_fault_oops() does not return to the original stack, which
> confuses gcc, and the unreachable() annotation leads to the end
> of the function just continuing on in the next one:
> 
> arch/x86/mm/fault.o: warning: objtool: page_fault_oops() falls through to next function kernelmode_fixup_or_oops.constprop.0()
> 
> To work around the warning, add an explicit endless loop here that
> objtool can detect.
> 
> Fixes: 6271cfdfc0e4 ("x86/mm: Improve stack-overflow #PF handling")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> I'm not sure about this one, maybe there is a way for objtool to
> detect this and not warn?
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index e6c469b323cc..0ef6e3cc54d2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ page_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>  			      ASM_CALL_ARG3,
>  			      , [arg1] "r" (regs), [arg2] "r" (address), [arg3] "r" (&info));
>  
> -		unreachable();
> +		do { } while (1); /* unreachable */

Ah, I have one that puts a BUG() there, like 2190966fbc14 ("x86: Convert
unreachable() to BUG()").

For some reason this hunk went missing from that patch.