objtool: Abstract alternative special case handling

Some alternatives associated with a specific feature need to be treated
in a special way. Since the features and how to treat them vary from one
architecture to another, move the special case handling to arch specific
code.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/special.c b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/special.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..823561e4015c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/special.c
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+#include "../../special.h"
+#include "../../builtin.h"
+
+#define X86_FEATURE_POPCNT (4 * 32 + 23)
+#define X86_FEATURE_SMAP   (9 * 32 + 20)
+
+void arch_handle_alternative(unsigned short feature, struct special_alt *alt)
+{
+	switch (feature) {
+	case X86_FEATURE_SMAP:
+		/*
+		 * If UACCESS validation is enabled; force that alternative;
+		 * otherwise force it the other way.
+		 *
+		 * What we want to avoid is having both the original and the
+		 * alternative code flow at the same time, in that case we can
+		 * find paths that see the STAC but take the NOP instead of
+		 * CLAC and the other way around.
+		 */
+		if (uaccess)
+			alt->skip_orig = true;
+		else
+			alt->skip_alt = true;
+		break;
+	case X86_FEATURE_POPCNT:
+		/*
+		 * It has been requested that we don't validate the !POPCNT
+		 * feature path which is a "very very small percentage of
+		 * machines".
+		 */
+		alt->skip_orig = true;
+		break;
+	default:
+		break;
+	}
+}