This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/ibt: Suppress spurious ENDBR
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-ibt-suppress-spurious-endbr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 0c53b75d20189985b1312a474a26120e9ae77d06
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Aug 2 12:55:46 2023 +0200
x86/ibt: Suppress spurious ENDBR
[ Upstream commit 25e73b7e3f72a25aa30cbb2eecb49036e0acf066 ]
It was reported that under certain circumstances GCC emits ENDBR
instructions for _THIS_IP_ usage. Specifically, when it appears at the
start of a basic block -- but not elsewhere.
Since _THIS_IP_ is never used for control flow, these ENDBR
instructions are completely superfluous. Override the _THIS_IP_
definition for x86_64 to avoid this.
Less ENDBR instructions is better.
Fixes: 156ff4a544ae ("x86/ibt: Base IBT bits")
Reported-by: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230802110323.016197440@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
index f484d656d34ee..3a0282a6a55df 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@
#undef notrace
#define notrace __attribute__((no_instrument_function))
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+/*
+ * The generic version tends to create spurious ENDBR instructions under
+ * certain conditions.
+ */
+#define _THIS_IP_ ({ unsigned long __here; asm ("lea 0(%%rip), %0" : "=r" (__here)); __here; })
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
#define asmlinkage CPP_ASMLINKAGE __attribute__((regparm(0)))
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
diff --git a/include/linux/instruction_pointer.h b/include/linux/instruction_pointer.h
index cda1f706eaeb1..aa0b3ffea9353 100644
--- a/include/linux/instruction_pointer.h
+++ b/include/linux/instruction_pointer.h
@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_INSTRUCTION_POINTER_H
#define _LINUX_INSTRUCTION_POINTER_H
+#include <asm/linkage.h>
+
#define _RET_IP_ (unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0)
+
+#ifndef _THIS_IP_
#define _THIS_IP_ ({ __label__ __here; __here: (unsigned long)&&__here; })
+#endif
#endif /* _LINUX_INSTRUCTION_POINTER_H */
