This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/speculation, objtool: Use absolute relocations for annotations
to the 6.6-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-speculation-objtool-use-absolute-relocations-for-annotations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b8ec60e1186cdcfce41e7db4c827cb107e459002 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:17:28 -0700
Subject: x86/speculation, objtool: Use absolute relocations for annotations
From: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit b8ec60e1186cdcfce41e7db4c827cb107e459002 upstream.
discard.retpoline_safe sections do not have the SHF_ALLOC flag. These
sections referencing text sections' STT_SECTION symbols with PC-relative
relocations like R_386_PC32 [0] is conceptually not suitable. Newer
LLD will report warnings for REL relocations even for relocatable links [1]:
ld.lld: warning: vmlinux.a(drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.o):(.discard.retpoline_safe+0x120): has non-ABS relocation R_386_PC32 against symbol ''
Switch to absolute relocations instead, which indicate link-time
addresses. In a relocatable link, these addresses are also output
section offsets, used by checks in tools/objtool/check.c. When linking
vmlinux, these .discard.* sections will be discarded, therefore it is
not a problem that R_X86_64_32 cannot represent a kernel address.
Alternatively, we could set the SHF_ALLOC flag for .discard.* sections,
but I think non-SHF_ALLOC for sections to be discarded makes more sense.
Note: if we decide to never support REL architectures (e.g. arm, i386),
we can utilize R_*_NONE relocations (.reloc ., BFD_RELOC_NONE, sym),
making .discard.* sections zero-sized. That said, the section content
waste is 4 bytes per entry, much smaller than sizeof(Elf{32,64}_Rel).
[0] commit 1c0c1faf5692 ("objtool: Use relative pointers for annotations")
[1] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1937
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230920001728.1439947-1-maskray@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 4 ++--
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/objtool.h | 10 +++++-----
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
#define ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE \
"999:\n\t" \
".pushsection .discard.ignore_alts\n\t" \
- ".long 999b - .\n\t" \
+ ".long 999b\n\t" \
".popsection\n\t"
/*
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_rese
.macro ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE
.Lannotate_\@:
.pushsection .discard.ignore_alts
- .long .Lannotate_\@ - .
+ .long .Lannotate_\@
.popsection
.endm
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
.macro ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE
.Lhere_\@:
.pushsection .discard.retpoline_safe
- .long .Lhere_\@ - .
+ .long .Lhere_\@
.popsection
.endm
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@
#define ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE \
"999:\n\t" \
".pushsection .discard.retpoline_safe\n\t" \
- ".long 999b - .\n\t" \
+ ".long 999b\n\t" \
".popsection\n\t"
typedef u8 retpoline_thunk_t[RETPOLINE_THUNK_SIZE];
--- a/include/linux/objtool.h
+++ b/include/linux/objtool.h
@@ -48,13 +48,13 @@
#define ANNOTATE_NOENDBR \
"986: \n\t" \
".pushsection .discard.noendbr\n\t" \
- ".long 986b - .\n\t" \
+ ".long 986b\n\t" \
".popsection\n\t"
#define ASM_REACHABLE \
"998:\n\t" \
".pushsection .discard.reachable\n\t" \
- ".long 998b - .\n\t" \
+ ".long 998b\n\t" \
".popsection\n\t"
#else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
#define ANNOTATE_INTRA_FUNCTION_CALL \
999: \
.pushsection .discard.intra_function_calls; \
- .long 999b - .; \
+ .long 999b; \
.popsection;
/*
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
.macro ANNOTATE_NOENDBR
.Lhere_\@:
.pushsection .discard.noendbr
- .long .Lhere_\@ - .
+ .long .Lhere_\@
.popsection
.endm
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
.macro REACHABLE
.Lhere_\@:
.pushsection .discard.reachable
- .long .Lhere_\@ - .
+ .long .Lhere_\@
.popsection
.endm
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maskray@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.6/x86-speculation-objtool-use-absolute-relocations-for-annotations.patch
