Re: [PATCH v2] gcc-plugins/stackleak: Use noinstr in favor of notrace

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 12:18 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> While the stackleak plugin was already using notrace, objtool is now a
> bit more picky. Update the notrace uses to noinstr. Silences the
> following objtool warnings when building with:

Thanks, applied.

There are still a few objtool warnings about other issues, all look
somehow related to mce:

  mce_start()+0x5c: call to __kasan_check_write() leaves .noinstr.text section
  mce_gather_info()+0x5f: call to v8086_mode.constprop.0() leaves
.noinstr.text section
  mce_read_aux()+0x8a: call to mca_msr_reg() leaves .noinstr.text section
  do_machine_check()+0x197: call to mce_no_way_out() leaves
.noinstr.text section
  mce_severity_amd.constprop.0()+0xca: call to mce_severity_amd_smca()
leaves .noinstr.textp section

and from a quick look at least some of them look like real bugs.

For example, mce_read_aux() is marked 'noinstr', but it calls
mca_msr_reg() which is not. That's iffy.

The others might be compiler-generated (the 'constprop' thing has
caused section issues before so I didn't bother looking closer). Or
related to kasan. But at least one of them seems to be a valid warning
about bad behavior.

              Linus