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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>2022-08-18 14:39:27 -0700
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-08-19 04:05:42 -0400
commite27e5bea956ce4d3eb15112de5fa5a3b77c2f488 (patch)
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parentKVM: Rename mmu_notifier_* to mmu_invalidate_* (diff)
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x86/ibt, objtool: Add IBT_NOSEAL()
Add a macro which prevents a function from getting sealed if there are no compile-time references to it. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Message-Id: <20220818213927.e44fmxkoq4yj6ybn@treble> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h
index 689880eca9ba..9b08082a5d9f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h
@@ -31,6 +31,16 @@
#define __noendbr __attribute__((nocf_check))
+/*
+ * 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.ibt_endbr_noseal\n\t" \
+ _ASM_PTR fname "\n\t" \
+ ".popsection\n\t"
+
static inline __attribute_const__ u32 gen_endbr(void)
{
u32 endbr;
@@ -84,6 +94,7 @@ extern __noendbr void ibt_restore(u64 save);
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#define ASM_ENDBR
+#define IBT_NOSEAL(name)
#define __noendbr