Re: [PATCH v4] kallsyms: strip CLANG CFI postfix ".cfi_jt"

From: Padmanabha Srinivasaiah
Date: Sat Aug 14 2021 - 08:15:32 EST


On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 04:05:25PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 4:28 PM Padmanabha Srinivasaiah
> <treasure4paddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Clang CFI adds a postfix ".cfi_jt" to a symbols of extern functions.
> > For e.g. this breaks syscall tracer that doesn't expect such postfix,
> > so strip out the postfix from the expanded symbol.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Padmanabha Srinivasaiah <treasure4paddy@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Change in v4:
> > - Remove redundant check; irrespective of LTO type (THIN/FULL),
> > LTO_CLANG will be always enabled. Hence will be used as entry flag
> > to check various postfix patterns.
> > - And prior to stripping postfix ".cfi_jt", added a comment to
> > justify why we are doing so.
> >
> > Change in v3:
> > - Modified commit message to indicate fix is for Clang CFI postfix
> > - Rebased on recent patch from ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx.
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
> > 20210707181814.365496-1-ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx/#t
> > - Fix is enabled even for CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
> >
> > Change in v2:
> > - Use existing routine in kallsyms to strip postfix ".cfi_jt" from
> > extern function name.
> > - Modified the commit message accordingly
> >
> > kernel/kallsyms.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> > index 5cabe4dd3ff4..1b40bcf20fe6 100644
> > --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
> > +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> > @@ -174,13 +174,15 @@ static bool cleanup_symbol_name(char *s)
> > * foo.llvm.974640843467629774. This can break hooking of static
> > * functions with kprobes.
> > */
> > - if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN))
> > + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LTO_CLANG))
> > return false;
> >
> > - res = strstr(s, ".llvm.");
> > - if (res) {
> > - *res = '\0';
> > - return true;
> > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN)) {
> > + res = strstr(s, ".llvm.");
> > + if (res) {
> > + *res = '\0';
> > + return true;
> > + }
> > }
>
> I confirmed that LLVM renames these also with full LTO, so the config
> check can be dropped here.
>
Thank you sami for the input I missread your earlier review commit, will
re-genrate the patch

> >
> > /*
> > @@ -194,6 +196,17 @@ static bool cleanup_symbol_name(char *s)
> > return false;
> >
> > res = strrchr(s, '$');
> > + if (!res) {
> > + /*
> > + * In case of non static function symbol <funcsym>,
> > + * the local jump table will have entry as <funcsym>.cfi_jt.
> > + *
> > + * Such expansion breaks some built-in components,
> > + * e.g. syscall tracer. Hence remove postfix ".cfi_jt".
> > + */
> > + res = strstr(s, ".cfi_jt");
> > + }
> > +
> > if (res) {
> > *res = '\0';
> > return true;
>
> Otherwise, the logic looks pretty good to me. Nick, are you planning
> to resend your earlier patch? Should this be just folded into the next
> version?
>
> Sami