kernel/tools/objtool/check.c, branch linux-6.13.y

objtool: Fix INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH handling in validate_unret()

2025-04-20T08:17:30Z

[ Upstream commit a8df7d0ef92eca28c610206c6748daf537ac0586 ] The !CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION version of xen_entry_SYSCALL_compat() ends with a SYSCALL instruction which is classified by objtool as INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH. Unlike validate_branch(), validate_unret() doesn't consider INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH in a non-function to be a dead end, so it keeps going past the end of xen_entry_SYSCALL_compat(), resulting in the following warning: vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: xen_reschedule_interrupt+0x2a: RET before UNTRAIN Fix that by adding INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH handling to validate_unret() to match what validate_branch() is already doing. Fixes: a09a6e2399ba ("objtool: Add entry UNRET validation") Reported-by: Andrew Cooper Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f5eda46fd09f15b1f5cde3d9ae3b92b958342add.1744095216.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

objtool: Fix verbose disassembly if CROSS_COMPILE isn't set

2025-04-10T12:41:52Z

[ Upstream commit e77956e4e5c11218e60a1fe8cdbccd02476f2e56 ] In verbose mode, when printing the disassembly of affected functions, if CROSS_COMPILE isn't set, the objdump command string gets prefixed with "(null)". Somehow this worked before. Maybe some versions of glibc return an empty string instead of NULL. Fix it regardless. [ jpoimboe: Rewrite commit log. ] Fixes: ca653464dd097 ("objtool: Add verbose option for disassembling affected functions") Signed-off-by: David Laight Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215142321.14081-1-david.laight.linux@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b931a4786bc0127aa4c94e8b35ed617dcbd3d3da.1743481539.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

objtool: Fix segfault in ignore_unreachable_insn()

2025-04-10T12:41:51Z

[ Upstream commit 69d41d6dafff0967565b971d950bd10443e4076c ] Check 'prev_insn' before dereferencing it. Fixes: bd841d6154f5 ("objtool: Fix CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP unreachable warnings") Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5df4ff89c9e4b9e788b77b0531234ffa7ba03e9e.1743136205.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/d86b4cc6-0b97-4095-8793-a7384410b8ab@app.fastmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/Z-V_rruKY0-36pqA@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86/traps: Make exc_double_fault() consistently noreturn

2025-04-10T12:41:33Z

[ Upstream commit 8085fcd78c1a3dbdf2278732579009d41ce0bc4e ] The CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64 version of exc_double_fault() can return to its caller, but the !CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64 version never does. In the latter case the compiler and/or objtool may consider it to be implicitly noreturn. However, due to the currently inflexible way objtool detects noreturns, a function's noreturn status needs to be consistent across configs. The current workaround for this issue is to suppress unreachable warnings for exc_double_fault()'s callers. Unfortunately that can result in ORC coverage gaps and potentially worse issues like inert static calls and silently disabled CPU mitigations. Instead, prevent exc_double_fault() from ever being implicitly marked noreturn by forcing a return behind a never-taken conditional. Until a more integrated noreturn detection method exists, this is likely the least objectionable workaround. Fixes: 55eeab2a8a11 ("objtool: Ignore exc_double_fault() __noreturn warnings") Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d1f4026f8dc35d0de6cc61f2684e0cb6484009d1.1741975349.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

objtool: Ignore dangling jump table entries

2025-03-22T19:56:47Z

[ Upstream commit 3724062ca2b1364f02cf44dbea1a552227844ad1 ] Clang sometimes leaves dangling unused jump table entries which point to the end of the function. Ignore them. Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20250113235835.vqgvb7cdspksy5dn@jpoimboe Reported-by: Klaus Kusche Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ee25c0b7e80113e950bd1d4c208b671d35774ff4.1736891751.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

objtool: Fix C jump table annotations for Clang

2025-03-07T17:27:03Z

[ Upstream commit 73cfc53cc3b6380eccf013049574485f64cb83ca ] 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 c5b1184decc8 ("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: c5b1184decc8 ("compiler.h: specify correct attribute for .rodata..c_jump_table") Tested-by: Tiezhu Yang # on LoongArch Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250221135704.431269-6-ardb+git@google.com Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

objtool: Remove annotate_{,un}reachable()

2025-03-07T17:27:03Z

[ Upstream commit 06e24745985c8dd0da18337503afcf2f2fdbdff1 ] There are no users of annotate_reachable() left. And the annotate_unreachable() usage in unreachable() is plain wrong; it will hide dangerous fall-through code-gen. Remove both. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241128094312.235637588@infradead.org Stable-dep-of: 73cfc53cc3b6 ("objtool: Fix C jump table annotations for Clang") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

objtool/rust: add one more `noreturn` Rust function

2025-02-21T13:11:06Z

commit cee6f9a9c87b6ecfb51845950c28216b231c3610 upstream. Starting with Rust 1.85.0 (currently in beta, to be released 2025-02-20), under some kernel configurations with `CONFIG_RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS=y`, one may trigger a new `objtool` warning: rust/kernel.o: warning: objtool: _R...securityNtB2_11SecurityCtx8as_bytes() falls through to next function _R...core3ops4drop4Drop4drop() due to a call to the `noreturn` symbol: core::panicking::assert_failed:: Thus add it to the list so that `objtool` knows it is actually `noreturn`. Do so matching with `strstr` since it is a generic. See commit 56d680dd23c3 ("objtool/rust: list `noreturn` Rust functions") for more details. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Needed in 6.12.y and 6.13.y only (Rust is pinned in older LTSs). Fixes: 56d680dd23c3 ("objtool/rust: list `noreturn` Rust functions") Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250112143951.751139-1-ojeda@kernel.org [ Updated Cc: stable@ to include 6.13.y. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

objtool/x86: allow syscall instruction

2024-12-13T08:28:21Z

The syscall instruction is used in Xen PV mode for doing hypercalls. Allow syscall to be used in the kernel in case it is tagged with an unwind hint for objtool. This is part of XSA-466 / CVE-2024-53241. Reported-by: Andrew Cooper Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2024-11-30T21:41:50Z

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add generic support for built-in boot DTB files - Enable TAB cycling for dialog buttons in nconfig - Fix issues in streamline_config.pl - Refactor Kconfig - Add support for Clang's AutoFDO (Automatic Feedback-Directed Optimization) - Add support for Clang's Propeller, a profile-guided optimization. - Change the working directory to the external module directory for M= builds - Support building external modules in a separate output directory - Enable objtool for *.mod.o and additional kernel objects - Use lz4 instead of deprecated lz4c - Work around a performance issue with "git describe" - Refactor modpost * tag 'kbuild-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (85 commits) kbuild: rename .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms to .tmp_vmlinux0.syms gitignore: Don't ignore 'tags' directory kbuild: add dependency from vmlinux to resolve_btfids modpost: replace tdb_hash() with hash_str() kbuild: deb-pkg: add python3:native to build dependency genksyms: reduce indentation in export_symbol() modpost: improve error messages in device_id_check() modpost: rename alias symbol for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() modpost: rename variables in handle_moddevtable() modpost: move strstarts() to modpost.h modpost: convert do_usb_table() to a generic handler modpost: convert do_of_table() to a generic handler modpost: convert do_pnp_device_entry() to a generic handler modpost: convert do_pnp_card_entries() to a generic handler modpost: call module_alias_printf() from all do_*_entry() functions modpost: pass (struct module *) to do_*_entry() functions modpost: remove DEF_FIELD_ADDR_VAR() macro modpost: deduplicate MODULE_ALIAS() for all drivers modpost: introduce module_alias_printf() helper modpost: remove unnecessary check in do_acpi_entry() ...