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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
	"Yang, Weijiang" <weijiang.yang@intel.com>,
	"Su, Heng" <heng.su@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kvm, objtool: Avoid fastop ENDBR from being sealed
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:06:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yv4dKABja9CxqcDS@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yv3sha0zujQxW1X8@xpf.sh.intel.com>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 03:38:45PM +0800, Pengfei Xu wrote:
>   And this "Missing ENDBR: andw_ax_dx+0x0/0x10 [kvm]" issue was
>   reproduced again after ran syzkaller 5min on ADL-P.

Ha, indeed :/

> > > +/*
> > > + * 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.endbr.noseal\n\t"	\
> > > +	_ASM_PTR fname "\n\t"				\
> > > +	".popsection\n\t"
> > > +

objtool/check.c:validate_ibt():

                if (!strncmp(sec->name, ".discard", 8)                  ||
		    ...)
		    continue;

So yeah, that'll just get ignored. So at the very least we need to
special case this section.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-18 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2022-08-17 10:56 ` [PATCH] x86/kvm, objtool: Avoid fastop ENDBR from being sealed Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-17 16:26   ` [tip: core/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-18  1:10   ` [PATCH] " Josh Poimboeuf
2022-08-18  7:28     ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-18  7:38       ` Pengfei Xu
2022-08-18 11:06         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2022-08-18 15:17           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-08-18  5:04   ` Pengfei Xu

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