[PATCH v6 0/2] static call support for arm64

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Fri Nov 05 2021 - 10:59:27 EST


This implements non-inline static calls for arm64. This is rather
straight-forward, as we don't rely on any tooling to look for static
call sites etc. The only minor complication is Clang CFI, which is
already in mainline for arm64, and requires a little tweak to ensure
that we don't end up patching the CFI jump table instead of the static
call trampoline itself.

Changes since v5:
- drop the patch that works around issues with references to symbols
with static linkage from asm blocks; this is specific to Clang+ThinLTO
in versions before 13, so we can just decide not to support that config.
- add a patch to use non-function type symbols for the trampolines, to
ensure that taking the address gives us the trampoline itself rather
than the address of a CFI jump table entry that branches to it.

Changes since v4:
- add preparatory patch to address generic CFI/LTO issues with static
calls
- add comment to patch #2 describing the trampoline layout
- add handling of Clang CFI jump table entries
- add PeterZ's ack to patch #2

Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Ard Biesheuvel (2):
static_call: use non-function types to refer to the trampolines
arm64: implement support for static call trampolines

arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/static_call.h | 40 ++++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++-
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
include/linux/static_call.h | 4 +-
include/linux/static_call_types.h | 11 ++-
6 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/static_call.h

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