Re: [PATCH v2 01/24] x86/xen: Mark cpu_bringup_and_idle() as dead_end_function

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Thu Jun 24 2021 - 06:49:09 EST


On 24.06.21 11:41, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
The asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle() function is required to push the return
value on the stack in order to make ORC happy, but the only reason
objtool doesn't complain is because of a happy accident.

The thing is that asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle() doesn't return, so
validate_branch() never terminates and falls through to the next
function, which in the normal case is the hypercall_page. And that, as
it happens, is 4095 NOPs and a RET.

Make asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle() terminate on it's own, by making the
function it calls as a dead-end. This way we no longer rely on what
code happens to come after.

Fixes: c3881eb58d56 ("x86/xen: Make the secondary CPU idle tasks reliable")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Juergen

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