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From: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/cfi: Use symmetric SYM_START and SYM_END in __CFI_TYPE()
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:57:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260611155716.830563-1-jremus@linux.ibm.com> (raw)

Commit ccace936eec7 ("x86: Add types to indirectly called assembly
functions") introduced a x86-specific implementation of __CFI_TYPE()
using an asymmetric combination of SYM_START() and SYM_FUNC_END() to
add a symbol to the KCFI type identifier that precedes a function.

This asymmetric combination is an issue if SYM_FUNC_END() ever gets
extended in a way that requires it to be used symmetrically with
SYM_FUNC_START*().  For instance to emit DWARF CFI directives that
denote the start/end of a function. [1]

Use SYM_END() with SYM_T_FUNC instead.  No functional change, as the
generic implementation of SYM_FUNC_END(name) expands into
SYM_END(name, SYM_T_FUNC).

Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260522110427.2816637-1-jremus@linux.ibm.com?part=3 [1]
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
---

Notes (jremus):
    This patch applies on top of linus' tree (9716c086c8e8):
    
      git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git  master
    
    I verified as follows that in x86-64 builds of vmlinux using Clang with
    kCFI enabled without and with my patch applied vmlinux.o only differs in
    relocations targeting .rodata.str* and a few symbols in .rodata shifted
    (both likely due to differences in string merging):
    
    $ objdump -d vmlinux.o > vmlinux.o.{old|new}.objdump
    $ readelf -Wa vmlinux.o > vmlinux.o.{old|new}.readelf
    $ diff -u vmlinux.o.old.objdump vmlinux.o.new.objdump
    [no differences]
    $ diff -u0 vmlinux.o.old.readelf vmlinux.o.new.readelf | \
      grep --invert-match -E "\.rodata\.str|@@"
    [see above]

 arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
index a7294656ad90..c9769a7b6e66 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 	.byte 0xb8 ASM_NL					\
 	.long __kcfi_typeid_##name ASM_NL			\
 	CFI_POST_PADDING					\
-	SYM_FUNC_END(__cfi_##name)
+	SYM_END(__cfi_##name, SYM_T_FUNC)
 
 /* UML needs to be able to override memcpy() and friends for KASAN. */
 #ifdef CONFIG_UML
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-11 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-11 15:57 Jens Remus [this message]
2026-06-11 19:28 ` [PATCH] x86/cfi: Use symmetric SYM_START and SYM_END in __CFI_TYPE() Peter Zijlstra
2026-06-13 16:29 ` Nathan Chancellor

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