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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>2023-10-17 09:59:46 -0700
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2023-10-20 13:02:23 +0200
commit2d7ce49f58dc95495b3e22e45d2be7de909b2c63 (patch)
tree566e79f697f788330bf2de7748ff6dba7756d61f /scripts
parent321a145137653188b8bf9a6b6fc60e8ccb184392 (diff)
x86/retpoline: Make sure there are no unconverted return thunks due to KCSAN
Enabling CONFIG_KCSAN leads to unconverted, default return thunks to remain after patching. As David Kaplan describes in his debugging of the issue, it is caused by a couple of KCSAN-generated constructors which aren't processed by objtool: "When KCSAN is enabled, GCC generates lots of constructor functions named _sub_I_00099_0 which call __tsan_init and then return. The returns in these are generally annotated normally by objtool and fixed up at runtime. But objtool runs on vmlinux.o and vmlinux.o does not include a couple of object files that are in vmlinux, like init/version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o, both of which contain _sub_I_00099_0 functions. As a result, the returns in these functions are not annotated, and the panic occurs when we call one of them in do_ctors and it uses the default return thunk. This difference can be seen by counting the number of these functions in the object files: $ objdump -d vmlinux.o|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:" 2601 $ objdump -d vmlinux|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:" 2603 If these functions are only run during kernel boot, there is no speculation concern." Fix it by disabling KCSAN on version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o so the extra functions don't get generated. KASAN and GCOV are already disabled for those files. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231016214810.GA3942238@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/ Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017165946.v4i2d4exyqwqq3bx@treble
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/Makefile.vmlinux1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
index 3cd6ca15f390..c9f3e03124d7 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ quiet_cmd_cc_o_c = CC $@
ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
KASAN_SANITIZE_.vmlinux.export.o := n
+KCSAN_SANITIZE_.vmlinux.export.o := n
GCOV_PROFILE_.vmlinux.export.o := n
targets += .vmlinux.export.o
vmlinux: .vmlinux.export.o