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Author SHA1 Message Date
Josh Poimboeuf
2c2acca2ea objtool: Fix .cold function detection for duplicate symbols
The objtool .cold child/parent correlation is done in two phases: first
in elf_add_symbol() and later in add_jump_destinations().

The first phase is rather crude and can pick the wrong parent if there
are duplicates with the same name.

The second phase usually fixes that, but only if the parent has a direct
jump to the child.  It does *not* work if the only branch from the
parent to the child is an alternative or jump table entry.

Make the first phase more robust by looking for the parent in the same
STT_FILE as the child.

Fixes the following objtool warnings in an AutoFDO build with a large
CLANG_AUTOFDO_PROFILE profile:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: rdev_add_key() falls through to next function rdev_add_key.cold()
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: rdev_set_default_key() falls through to next function rdev_set_default_key.cold()

Fixes: 13810435b9 ("objtool: Support GCC 8's cold subfunctions")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/82c7b52e40efa75dd10e1c550cc75c1ce10ac2c9.1763671318.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-11-21 10:04:07 +01:00
Borislav Petkov (AMD)
249092174c tools/objtool: Copy the __cleanup unused variable fix for older clang
Copy from

  54da6a0924 ("locking: Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure")

the bits which mark the variable with a cleanup attribute unused so that my
clang 15 can dispose of it properly instead of warning that it is unused which
then fails the build due to -Werror.

Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251031114919.GBaQSiPxZrziOs3RCW@fat_crate.local
2025-11-10 12:46:08 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
164c9201e1 objtool: Add base objtool support for livepatch modules
In preparation for klp-build, enable "classic" objtool to work on
livepatch modules:

  - Avoid duplicate symbol/section warnings for prefix symbols and the
    .static_call_sites and __mcount_loc sections which may have already
    been extracted by klp diff.

  - Add __klp_funcs to the IBT function pointer section whitelist.

  - Prevent KLP symbols from getting incorrectly classified as cold
    subfunctions.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:50:18 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
2058f6d166 objtool: Refactor prefix symbol creation code
The prefix symbol creation code currently ignores all errors, presumably
because some functions don't have the leading NOPs.

Shuffle the code around a bit, improve the error handling and document
why some errors are ignored.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:50:18 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
ebe864b553 objtool/klp: Add post-link subcommand to finalize livepatch modules
Livepatch needs some ELF magic which linkers don't like:

  - Two relocation sections (.rela*, .klp.rela*) for the same text
    section.

  - Use of SHN_LIVEPATCH to mark livepatch symbols.

Unfortunately linkers tend to mangle such things.  To work around that,
klp diff generates a linker-compliant intermediate binary which encodes
the relevant KLP section/reloc/symbol metadata.

After module linking, the .ko then needs to be converted to an actual
livepatch module.  Introduce a new klp post-link subcommand to do so.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:50:18 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
7c2575a640 objtool/klp: Add --debug option to show cloning decisions
Add a --debug option to klp diff which prints cloning decisions and an
indented dependency tree for all cloned symbols and relocations.  This
helps visualize which symbols and relocations were included and why.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:50:18 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
dd590d4d57 objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files
Add a new klp diff subcommand which performs a binary diff between two
object files and extracts changed functions into a new object which can
then be linked into a livepatch module.

This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch [1]
project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate
livepatch modules for production kernels.  However, this is a complete
rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of
maintaining kpatch.

Key improvements compared to kpatch-build:

  - Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow
    graph analysis to help detect changed functions.

  - Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it
    compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar.

  - Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code.

  - Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft.

  - Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc
    inclusion and special section extraction.

  - Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs
    caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script
    (coming in a later patch) which injects #line directives into the
    source .patch to preserve the original line numbers at compile time.

Note the end result of this subcommand is not yet functionally complete.
Livepatch needs some ELF magic which linkers don't like:

  - Two relocation sections (.rela*, .klp.rela*) for the same text
    section.

  - Use of SHN_LIVEPATCH to mark livepatch symbols.

Unfortunately linkers tend to mangle such things.  To work around that,
klp diff generates a linker-compliant intermediate binary which encodes
the relevant KLP section/reloc/symbol metadata.

After module linking, a klp post-link step (coming soon) will clean up
the mess and convert the linked .ko into a fully compliant livepatch
module.

Note this subcommand requires the diffed binaries to have been compiled
with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections, and processed with
'objtool --checksum'.  Those constraints will be handled by a klp-build
script introduced in a later patch.

Without '-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections', reliable object diffing
would be infeasible due to toolchain limitations:

  - For intra-file+intra-section references, the compiler might
    occasionally generated hard-coded instruction offsets instead of
    relocations.

  - Section-symbol-based references can be ambiguous:

    - Overlapping or zero-length symbols create ambiguity as to which
      symbol is being referenced.

    - A reference to the end of a symbol (e.g., checking array bounds)
      can be misinterpreted as a reference to the next symbol, or vice
      versa.

A potential future alternative to '-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections'
would be to introduce a toolchain option that forces symbol-based
(non-section) relocations.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:50:18 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
a3493b3338 objtool/klp: Add --debug-checksum=<funcs> to show per-instruction checksums
Add a --debug-checksum=<funcs> option to the check subcommand to print
the calculated checksum of each instruction in the given functions.

This is useful for determining where two versions of a function begin to
diverge.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:50:18 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
0d83da43b1 objtool/klp: Add --checksum option to generate per-function checksums
In preparation for the objtool klp diff subcommand, add a command-line
option to generate a unique checksum for each function.  This will
enable detection of functions which have changed between two versions of
an object file.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:50:17 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
3b92486fa1 objtool: Add annotype() helper
... for reading annotation types.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:49 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
03c19a99ee objtool: Add elf_create_file()
Add interface to enable the creation of a new ELF file.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:49 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
2c05ca0262 objtool: Add elf_create_reloc() and elf_init_reloc()
elf_create_rela_section() is quite limited in that it requires the
caller to know how many relocations need to be allocated up front.

In preparation for the objtool klp diff subcommand, allow an arbitrary
number of relocations to be created and initialized on demand after
section creation.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:49 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
431dbabf2d objtool: Add elf_create_data()
In preparation for the objtool klp diff subcommand, refactor
elf_add_string() by adding a new elf_add_data() helper which allows the
adding of arbitrary data to a section.

Make both interfaces global so they can be used by the upcoming klp diff
code.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:48 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
243e963853 objtool: Generalize elf_create_section()
In preparation for the objtool klp diff subcommand, broaden the
elf_create_section() interface to give callers more control and reduce
duplication of some subtle setup logic.

While at it, make elf_create_rela_section() global so sections can be
created by the upcoming klp diff code.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:48 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
dd2c29aafd objtool: Generalize elf_create_symbol()
In preparation for the objtool klp diff subcommand, broaden the
elf_create_symbol() interface to give callers more control and reduce
duplication of some subtle setup logic.

While at it, make elf_create_symbol() and elf_create_section_symbol()
global so sections can be created by the upcoming klp diff code.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:48 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
a05de0a772 objtool: Refactor add_jump_destinations()
The add_jump_destinations() logic is a bit weird and convoluted after
being incrementally tweaked over the years.  Refactor it to hopefully be
more logical and straightforward.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:48 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
2b91479776 objtool: Resurrect --backup option
The --backup option was removed with the following commit:

  aa8b3e64fd ("objtool: Create backup on error and print args")

... which tied the backup functionality to --verbose, and only for
warnings/errors.

It's a bit inelegant and out of scope to tie that to --verbose.

Bring back the old --backup option, but with the new behavior: only on
warnings/errors, and print the args to make it easier to recreate.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:48 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
a1526bcfcb objtool: Mark prefix functions
In preparation for the objtool klp diff subcommand, introduce a flag to
identify __pfx_*() and __cfi_*() functions in advance so they don't need
to be manually identified every time a check is needed.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:47 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
c9e9b85d41 objtool: Fix weak symbol hole detection for .cold functions
When ignore_unreachable_insn() looks for weak function holes which jump
to their .cold functions, it assumes the parent function comes before
the corresponding .cold function in the symbol table.  That's not
necessarily the case with -ffunction-sections.

Mark all the holes beforehand (including .cold functions) so the
ordering of the discovery doesn't matter.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:47 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
4ea029389b objtool: Mark .cold subfunctions
Introduce a flag to identify .cold subfunctions so they can be detected
easier and faster.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:46:46 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
25eac74b6b objtool: Add section/symbol type helpers
Add some helper macros to improve readability.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:45:25 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
96eceff331 objtool: Convert elf iterator macros to use 'struct elf'
'struct objtool_file' is specific to the check code and doesn't belong
in the elf code which is supposed to be objtool_file-agnostic.  Convert
the elf iterator macros to use 'struct elf' instead.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:45:25 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
34244f784c objtool: Const string cleanup
Use 'const char *' where applicable.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:45:24 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
41d24d7858 objtool: Fix x86 addend calculation
On x86, arch_dest_reloc_offset() hardcodes the addend adjustment to
four, but the actual adjustment depends on the relocation type.  Fix
that.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:45:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9591fdb061 Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull more x86 updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove a bunch of asm implementing condition flags testing in KVM's
   emulator in favor of int3_emulate_jcc() which is written in C

 - Replace KVM fastops with C-based stubs which avoids problems with the
   fastop infra related to latter not adhering to the C ABI due to their
   special calling convention and, more importantly, bypassing compiler
   control-flow integrity checking because they're written in asm

 - Remove wrongly used static branches and other ugliness accumulated
   over time in hyperv's hypercall implementation with a proper static
   function call to the correct hypervisor call variant

 - Add some fixes and modifications to allow running FRED-enabled
   kernels in KVM even on non-FRED hardware

 - Add kCFI improvements like validating indirect calls and prepare for
   enabling kCFI with GCC. Add cmdline params documentation and other
   code cleanups

 - Use the single-byte 0xd6 insn as the official #UD single-byte
   undefined opcode instruction as agreed upon by both x86 vendors

 - Other smaller cleanups and touchups all over the place

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86,retpoline: Optimize patch_retpoline()
  x86,ibt: Use UDB instead of 0xEA
  x86/cfi: Remove __noinitretpoline and __noretpoline
  x86/cfi: Add "debug" option to "cfi=" bootparam
  x86/cfi: Standardize on common "CFI:" prefix for CFI reports
  x86/cfi: Document the "cfi=" bootparam options
  x86/traps: Clarify KCFI instruction layout
  compiler_types.h: Move __nocfi out of compiler-specific header
  objtool: Validate kCFI calls
  x86/fred: KVM: VMX: Always use FRED for IRQs when CONFIG_X86_FRED=y
  x86/fred: Play nice with invoking asm_fred_entry_from_kvm() on non-FRED hardware
  x86/fred: Install system vector handlers even if FRED isn't fully enabled
  x86/hyperv: Use direct call to hypercall-page
  x86/hyperv: Clean up hv_do_hypercall()
  KVM: x86: Remove fastops
  KVM: x86: Convert em_salc() to C
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_3WCL
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_1SRC2
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2CL
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2W
  ...
2025-10-11 11:19:16 -07:00
Ard Biesheuvel
0d6e4563fc objtool: Add action to check for absence of absolute relocations
The x86 startup code must not use absolute references to code or data,
as it executes before the kernel virtual mapping is up.

Add an action to objtool to check all allocatable sections (with the
exception of __patchable_function_entries, which uses absolute
references for nebulous reasons) and raise an error if any absolute
references are found.

Note that debug sections typically contain lots of absolute references
too, but those are not allocatable so they will be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-39-ardb+git@google.com
2025-09-03 17:59:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
894af4a1cd objtool: Validate kCFI calls
Validate that all indirect calls adhere to kCFI rules. Notably doing
nocfi indirect call to a cfi function is broken.

Apparently some Rust 'core' code violates this and explodes when ran
with FineIBT.

All the ANNOTATE_NOCFI_SYM sites are prime targets for attackers.

 - runtime EFI is especially henous because it also needs to disable
   IBT. Basically calling unknown code without CFI protection at
   runtime is a massice security issue.

 - Kexec image handover; if you can exploit this, you get to keep it :-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250714103441.496787279@infradead.org
2025-08-18 14:23:09 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
4ed9d82bf5 objtool: Speed up SHT_GROUP reindexing
After elf_update_group_sh_info() was introduced, a prototype version of
"objtool klp diff" went from taking ~1s to several minutes, due to
looping almost endlessly in elf_update_group_sh_info() while creating
thousands of local symbols in a file with thousands of sections.

Dramatically improve the performance by marking all symbols' correlated
SHT_GROUP sections while reading the object.  That way there's no need
to search for it every time a symbol gets reindexed.

Fixes: 2cb291596e ("objtool: Fix up st_info in COMDAT group section")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Rong Xu <xur@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a33e583c87e3283706f346f9d59aac20653b7fd.1746662991.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-05-14 13:09:02 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
fe1042b1ef objtool: Split INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH into INSN_SYSCALL and INSN_SYSRET
INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH is ambiguous.  It can represent both call semantics
(SYSCALL, SYSENTER) and return semantics (SYSRET, IRET, RETS, RETU).
Those differ significantly: calls preserve control flow whereas returns
terminate it.

Objtool uses an arbitrary rule for INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH that almost works
by accident: if in a function, keep going; otherwise stop.  It should
instead be based on the semantics of the underlying instruction.

In preparation for improving that, split INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH into
INSN_SYCALL and INSN_SYSRET.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/19a76c74d2c051d3bc9a775823cafc65ad267a7a.1744095216.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-04-08 09:14:11 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
3e7be63593 objtool: Change "warning:" to "error: " for fatal errors
This is similar to GCC's behavior and makes it more obvious why the
build failed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0ea76f4b0e7a370711ed9f75fd0792bb5979c2bf.1743481539.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-04-01 09:07:13 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
c5610071a6 Revert "objtool: Increase per-function WARN_FUNC() rate limit"
This reverts commit 0a7fb6f07e.

The "skipping duplicate warnings" warning is technically not an actual
warning, which can cause confusion.  This feature isn't all that useful
anyway.  It's exceedingly rare for a function to have more than one
unrelated warning.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e5abe5e858acf1a9207a5dfa0f37d17ac9dca872.1743481539.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-04-01 09:07:13 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
d39f82a058 objtool: Reduce CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR verbosity
Remove the following from CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR:

  * backtrace

  * "upgraded warnings to errors" message

  * cmdline args

This makes the default output less cluttered and makes it easier to spot
the actual warnings.  Note the above options are still are available
with --verbose or OBJTOOL_VERBOSE=1.

Also, do the cmdline arg printing on all warnings, regardless of werror.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d61df69f64b396fa6b2a1335588aad7a34ea9e71.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-25 09:20:27 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
c5995abe15 objtool: Improve error handling
Fix some error handling issues, improve error messages, properly
distinguish betwee errors and warnings, and generally try to make all
the error handling more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3094bb4463dad29b6bd1bea03848d1571ace771c.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-25 09:20:27 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
1154bbd326 objtool: Fix X86_FEATURE_SMAP alternative handling
For X86_FEATURE_SMAP alternatives which replace NOP with STAC or CLAC,
uaccess validation skips the NOP branch to avoid following impossible
code paths, e.g. where a STAC would be patched but a CLAC wouldn't.

However, it's not safe to assume an X86_FEATURE_SMAP alternative is
patching STAC/CLAC.  There can be other alternatives, like
static_cpu_has(), where both branches need to be validated.

Fix that by repurposing ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE for skipping either
original instructions or new ones.  This is a more generic approach
which enables the removal of the feature checking hacks and the
insn->ignore bit.

Fixes the following warnings:

  arch/x86/mm/fault.o: warning: objtool: do_user_addr_fault+0x8ec: __stack_chk_fail() missing __noreturn in .c/.h or NORETURN() in noreturns.h
  arch/x86/mm/fault.o: warning: objtool: do_user_addr_fault+0x8f1: unreachable instruction

[ mingo: Fix up conflicts with recent x86 changes. ]

Fixes: ea24213d80 ("objtool: Add UACCESS validation")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/de0621ca242130156a55d5d74fed86994dfa4c9c.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503181736.zkZUBv4N-lkp@intel.com/
2025-03-25 09:20:26 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
c84301d706 objtool: Ignore entire functions rather than instructions
STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD applies to functions.  Use a function-specific
ignore attribute in preparation for getting rid of insn->ignore.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4af13376567f83331a9372ae2bb25e11a3d0f055.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-25 09:20:25 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
ef753d6605 objtool: Fix detection of consecutive jump tables on Clang 20
The jump table detection code assumes jump tables are in the same order
as their corresponding indirect branches.  That's apparently not always
true with Clang 20.

Fix that by changing how multiple jump tables are detected.  In the
first detection pass, mark the beginning of each jump table so the
second pass can tell where one ends and the next one begins.

Fixes the following warnings:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: SiS_GetCRT2Ptr+0x1ad: stack state mismatch: cfa1=4+8 cfa2=5+16
  sound/core/seq/snd-seq.o: warning: objtool: cc_ev_to_ump_midi2+0x589: return with modified stack frame

Fixes: be2f0b1e12 ("objtool: Get rid of reloc->jump_table_start")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/141752fff614eab962dba6bdfaa54aa67ff03bba.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503171547.LlCTJLQL-lkp@intel.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503200535.J3hAvcjw-lkp@intel.com/
2025-03-25 09:20:25 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
aa8b3e64fd objtool: Create backup on error and print args
Recreating objtool errors can be a manual process.  Kbuild removes the
object, so it has to be compiled or linked again before running objtool.
Then the objtool args need to be reversed engineered.

Make that all easier by automatically making a backup of the object file
on error, and print a modified version of the args which can be used to
recreate.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7571e30636359b3e173ce6e122419452bb31882f.1741975349.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-17 11:36:02 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
a307dd28b1 objtool: Change "warning:" to "error:" for --Werror
This is similar to GCC's behavior and makes it more obvious why the
build failed.

Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/56f0565b15b4b4caa9a08953fa9c679dfa973514.1741975349.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-17 11:36:02 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
bb62243943 objtool: Add --Werror option
Any objtool warning has the potential of reflecting (or triggering) a
major bug in the kernel or compiler which could result in crashing the
kernel or breaking the livepatch consistency model.

In preparation for failing the build on objtool errors/warnings, add a
new --Werror option.

[ jpoimboe: commit log, comments, error out on fatal errors too ]

Co-developed-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e423ea4ec297f510a108aa6c78b52b9fe30fa8c1.1741975349.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-17 11:36:01 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
5a406031d0 objtool: Add --output option
Add option to allow writing the changed binary to a separate file rather
than changing it in place.

Libelf makes this suprisingly hard, so take the easy way out and just
copy the file before editing it.

Also steal the -o short option from --orc.  Nobody will notice ;-)

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0da308d42d82b3bbed16a31a72d6bde52afcd6bd.1741975349.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-17 11:36:01 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
0a7fb6f07e objtool: Increase per-function WARN_FUNC() rate limit
Increase the per-function WARN_FUNC() rate limit from 1 to 2.  If the
number of warnings for a given function goes beyond 2, print "skipping
duplicate warning(s)".  This helps root out additional warnings in a
function that might be hiding behind the first one.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aec318d66c037a51c9f376d6fb0e8ff32812a037.1741975349.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-17 11:36:00 +01:00
Tiezhu Yang
c4b93b0623 objtool: Handle PC relative relocation type
For the most part, an absolute relocation type is used for rodata.
In the case of STT_SECTION, reloc->sym->offset is always zero, for
the other symbol types, reloc_addend(reloc) is always zero, thus it
can use a simple statement "reloc->sym->offset + reloc_addend(reloc)"
to obtain the symbol offset for various symbol types.

When compiling on LoongArch, there exist PC relative relocation types
for rodata, it needs to calculate the symbol offset with "S + A - PC"
according to the spec of "ELF for the LoongArch Architecture".

If there is only one jump table in the rodata, the "PC" is the entry
address which is equal with the value of reloc_offset(reloc), at this
time, reloc_offset(table) is 0.

If there are many jump tables in the rodata, the "PC" is the offset
of the jump table's base address which is equal with the value of
reloc_offset(reloc) - reloc_offset(table).

So for LoongArch, if the relocation type is PC relative, it can use a
statement "reloc_offset(reloc) - reloc_offset(table)" to get the "PC"
value when calculating the symbol offset with "S + A - PC" for one or
many jump tables in the rodata.

Add an arch-specific function arch_jump_table_sym_offset() to assign
the symbol offset, for the most part that is an absolute relocation,
the default value is "reloc->sym->offset + reloc_addend(reloc)" in
the weak definition, it can be overridden by each architecture that
has different requirements.

Link: https://github.com/loongson/la-abi-specs/blob/release/laelf.adoc
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250211115016.26913-4-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Acked-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-03-12 15:43:38 -07:00
Tiezhu Yang
091bf313f8 objtool: Handle different entry size of rodata
In the most cases, the entry size of rodata is 8 bytes because the
relocation type is 64 bit. There are also 32 bit relocation types,
the entry size of rodata should be 4 bytes in this case.

Add an arch-specific function arch_reloc_size() to assign the entry
size of rodata for x86, powerpc and LoongArch.

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250211115016.26913-3-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Acked-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-03-12 15:43:38 -07:00
Ard Biesheuvel
73cfc53cc3 objtool: Fix C jump table annotations for Clang
A C jump table (such as the one used by the BPF interpreter) is a const
global array of absolute code addresses, and this means that the actual
values in the table may not be known until the kernel is booted (e.g.,
when using KASLR or when the kernel VA space is sized dynamically).

When using PIE codegen, the compiler will default to placing such const
global objects in .data.rel.ro (which is annotated as writable), rather
than .rodata (which is annotated as read-only). As C jump tables are
explicitly emitted into .rodata, this used to result in warnings for
LoongArch builds (which uses PIE codegen for the entire kernel) like

  Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for .rodata..c_jump_table

due to the fact that the explicitly specified .rodata section inherited
the read-write annotation that the compiler uses for such objects when
using PIE codegen.

This warning was suppressed by explicitly adding the read-only
annotation to the __attribute__((section(""))) string, by commit

  c5b1184dec ("compiler.h: specify correct attribute for .rodata..c_jump_table")

Unfortunately, this hack does not work on Clang's integrated assembler,
which happily interprets the appended section type and permission
specifiers as part of the section name, which therefore no longer
matches the hard-coded pattern '.rodata..c_jump_table' that objtool
expects, causing it to emit a warning

  kernel/bpf/core.o: warning: objtool: ___bpf_prog_run+0x20: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame

Work around this, by emitting C jump tables into .data.rel.ro instead,
which is treated as .rodata by the linker script for all builds, not
just PIE based ones.

Fixes: c5b1184dec ("compiler.h: specify correct attribute for .rodata..c_jump_table")
Tested-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> # on LoongArch
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250221135704.431269-6-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-02-25 09:46:16 -08:00
Ard Biesheuvel
c3cb6c158c objtool: Allow arch code to discover jump table size
In preparation for adding support for annotated jump tables, where
ELF relocations and symbols are used to describe the locations of jump
tables in the executable, refactor the jump table discovery logic so the
table size can be returned from arch_find_switch_table().

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241011170847.334429-12-ardb+git@google.com
2024-12-02 12:24:29 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
ed1cb76ebd objtool: Detect non-relocated text references
When kernel IBT is enabled, objtool detects all text references in order
to determine which functions can be indirectly branched to.

In text, such references look like one of the following:

   mov    $0x0,%rax        R_X86_64_32S     .init.text+0x7e0a0
   lea    0x0(%rip),%rax   R_X86_64_PC32    autoremove_wake_function-0x4

Either way the function pointer is denoted by a relocation, so objtool
just reads that.

However there are some "lea xxx(%rip)" cases which don't use relocations
because they're referencing code in the same translation unit.  Objtool
doesn't have visibility to those.

The only currently known instances of that are a few hand-coded asm text
references which don't actually need ENDBR.  So it's not actually a
problem at the moment.

However if we enable -fpie, the compiler would start generating them and
there would definitely be bugs in the IBT sealing.

Detect non-relocated text references and handle them appropriately.

[ Note: I removed the manual static_call_tramp check -- that should
  already be handled by the noendbr check. ]

Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2024-10-17 15:13:06 -07:00
Tiezhu Yang
da5b2ad1c2 objtool: Handle frame pointer related instructions
After commit a0f7085f6a ("LoongArch: Add RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET
support"), there are three new instructions "addi.d $fp, $sp, 32",
"sub.d $sp, $sp, $t0" and "addi.d $sp, $fp, -32" for the secondary
stack in do_syscall(), then there is a objtool warning "return with
modified stack frame" and no handle_syscall() which is the previous
frame of do_syscall() in the call trace when executing the command
"echo l > /proc/sysrq-trigger".

objdump shows something like this:

0000000000000000 <do_syscall>:
   0:   02ff8063        addi.d          $sp, $sp, -32
   4:   29c04076        st.d            $fp, $sp, 16
   8:   29c02077        st.d            $s0, $sp, 8
   c:   29c06061        st.d            $ra, $sp, 24
  10:   02c08076        addi.d          $fp, $sp, 32
  ...
  74:   0011b063        sub.d           $sp, $sp, $t0
  ...
  a8:   4c000181        jirl            $ra, $t0, 0
  ...
  dc:   02ff82c3        addi.d          $sp, $fp, -32
  e0:   28c06061        ld.d            $ra, $sp, 24
  e4:   28c04076        ld.d            $fp, $sp, 16
  e8:   28c02077        ld.d            $s0, $sp, 8
  ec:   02c08063        addi.d          $sp, $sp, 32
  f0:   4c000020        jirl            $zero, $ra, 0

The instruction "sub.d $sp, $sp, $t0" changes the stack bottom and the
new stack size is a random value, in order to find the return address of
do_syscall() which is stored in the original stack frame after executing
"jirl $ra, $t0, 0", it should use fp which points to the original stack
top.

At the beginning, the thought is tended to decode the secondary stack
instruction "sub.d $sp, $sp, $t0" and set it as a label, then check this
label for the two frame pointer instructions to change the cfa base and
cfa offset during the period of secondary stack in update_cfi_state().
This is valid for GCC but invalid for Clang due to there are different
secondary stack instructions for ClangBuiltLinux on LoongArch, something
like this:

0000000000000000 <do_syscall>:
  ...
  88:   00119064        sub.d           $a0, $sp, $a0
  8c:   00150083        or              $sp, $a0, $zero
  ...

Actually, it equals to a single instruction "sub.d $sp, $sp, $a0", but
there is no proper condition to check it as a label like GCC, and so the
beginning thought is not a good way.

Essentially, there are two special frame pointer instructions which are
"addi.d $fp, $sp, imm" and "addi.d $sp, $fp, imm", the first one points
fp to the original stack top and the second one restores the original
stack bottom from fp.

Based on the above analysis, in order to avoid adding an arch-specific
update_cfi_state(), we just add a member "frame_pointer" in the "struct
symbol" as a label to avoid affecting the current normal case, then set
it as true only if there is "addi.d $sp, $fp, imm". The last is to check
this label for the two frame pointer instructions to change the cfa base
and cfa offset in update_cfi_state().

Tested with the following two configs:
(1) CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET=y &&
    CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT=n
(2) CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET=y &&
    CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT=y

By the way, there is no effect for x86 with this patch, tested on the
x86 machine with Fedora 40 system.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.9+
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
2024-09-17 22:23:09 +08:00
Tiezhu Yang
d5ab2bc36c objtool: Check local label in add_dead_ends()
When update the latest upstream gcc and binutils, it generates more
objtool warnings on LoongArch, like this:

  init/main.o: warning: objtool: unexpected relocation symbol type in .rela.discard.unreachable

We can see that the reloc sym name is local label instead of section in
relocation section '.rela.discard.unreachable', in this case, the reloc
sym type is STT_NOTYPE instead of STT_SECTION.

As suggested by Peter Zijlstra, we add a "local_label" member in struct
symbol, then set it as true if symbol type is STT_NOTYPE and symbol name
starts with ".L" string in classify_symbols().

Let's check reloc->sym->local_label to not return -1 in add_dead_ends(),
and also use reloc->sym->offset instead of reloc addend which is 0 to
find the corresponding instruction. At the same time, let's replace the
variable "addend" with "offset" to reflect the reality.

Here are some detailed info:
[fedora@linux 6.8.test]$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 14.0.1 20240129 (experimental)
[fedora@linux 6.8.test]$ as --version
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.42.50.20240129
[fedora@linux 6.8.test]$ readelf -r init/main.o | grep -A 2 "rela.discard.unreachable"
Relocation section '.rela.discard.unreachable' at offset 0x6028 contains 1 entry:
  Offset          Info           Type           Sym. Value    Sym. Name + Addend
000000000000  00d900000063 R_LARCH_32_PCREL  00000000000002c4 .L500^B1 + 0

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
2024-03-11 22:23:47 +08:00
Tiezhu Yang
b8e85e6f3a objtool/x86: Separate arch-specific and generic parts
Move init_orc_entry(), write_orc_entry(), reg_name(), orc_type_name()
and print_reg() from generic orc_gen.c and orc_dump.c to arch-specific
orc.c, then introduce a new function orc_print_dump() to print info.

This is preparation for later patch, no functionality change.

Co-developed-by: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn>
Co-developed-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
2024-03-11 22:23:47 +08:00
Peter Zijlstra
4ae68b26c3 objtool/x86: Fix SRSO mess
Objtool --rethunk does two things:

 - it collects all (tail) call's of __x86_return_thunk and places them
   into .return_sites. These are typically compiler generated, but
   RET also emits this same.

 - it fudges the validation of the __x86_return_thunk symbol; because
   this symbol is inside another instruction, it can't actually find
   the instruction pointed to by the symbol offset and gets upset.

Because these two things pertained to the same symbol, there was no
pressing need to separate these two separate things.

However, alas, along comes SRSO and more crazy things to deal with
appeared.

The SRSO patch itself added the following symbol names to identify as
rethunk:

  'srso_untrain_ret', 'srso_safe_ret' and '__ret'

Where '__ret' is the old retbleed return thunk, 'srso_safe_ret' is a
new similarly embedded return thunk, and 'srso_untrain_ret' is
completely unrelated to anything the above does (and was only included
because of that INT3 vs UD2 issue fixed previous).

Clear things up by adding a second category for the embedded instruction
thing.

Fixes: fb3bd914b3 ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814121148.704502245@infradead.org
2023-08-16 09:39:16 +02:00