[PATCH] lkdtm: Avoid objtool/ibt warning

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 14 2022 - 12:19:17 EST


On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 08:26:17PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> head: 094226ad94f471a9f19e8f8e7140a09c2625abaa
> commit: 656d054e0a15ec327bd82801ccd58201e59f6896 jump_label,noinstr: Avoid instrumentation for JUMP_LABEL=n builds
> date: 6 months ago
> config: x86_64-buildonly-randconfig-r001-20221114
> compiler: gcc-11 (Debian 11.3.0-8) 11.3.0
> reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
> # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=656d054e0a15ec327bd82801ccd58201e59f6896
> git remote add linus https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> git fetch --no-tags linus master
> git checkout 656d054e0a15ec327bd82801ccd58201e59f6896
> # save the config file
> mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
> make W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash


> >> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: lkdtm_UNSET_SMEP+0x1c3: relocation to !ENDBR: native_write_cr4+0x41

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Subject: lkdtm: Avoid objtool/ibt warning
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 14 16:17:50 CET 2022

For certain configs objtool will complain like:

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: lkdtm_UNSET_SMEP+0x1c3: relocation to !ENDBR: native_write_cr4+0x41

What happens is that GCC optimizes the loop:

insn = (unsigned char *)native_write_cr4;
for (i = 0; i < MOV_CR4_DEPTH; i++)

to read something like:

for (insn = (unsigned char *)native_write_cr4;
insn < (unsigned char *)native_write_cr4 + MOV_CR4_DEPTH;
insn++)

Which then obviously generates the text reference
native_write_cr4+041. Since none of this is a fast path, simply
confuse GCC enough to inhibit this optimization.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c
@@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ static void lkdtm_UNSET_SMEP(void)
* the cr4 writing instruction.
*/
insn = (unsigned char *)native_write_cr4;
+ OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(insn);
for (i = 0; i < MOV_CR4_DEPTH; i++) {
/* mov %rdi, %cr4 */
if (insn[i] == 0x0f && insn[i+1] == 0x22 && insn[i+2] == 0xe7)