Re: [PATCH RFC 22/43] x86/ftrace: Adapt ftrace nop patching for PIE support

[Hou Wenlong]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 09:44:54PM +0800, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:51:02 +0800
> "Hou Wenlong" <houwenlong.hwl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > From: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > When using PIE with function tracing, the compiler generates a
> > call through the GOT (call *__fentry__@GOTPCREL). This instruction
> > takes 6-bytes instead of 5-bytes with a relative call. And -mnop-mcount
> > option is not implemented for -fPIE now.
> > 
> > If PIE is enabled, replace the 6th byte of the GOT call by a 1-byte nop
> > so ftrace can handle the previous 5-bytes as before.
> 
> Wait! This won't work!
> 
> You can't just append another nop to fill in the blanks here. We must
> either have a single 6 byte nop, or we need to refactor the entire logic to
> something that other archs have.
> 
> The two nops means that the CPU can take it as two separate commands.
> There's nothing stopping the computer from preempting a task between the
> two. If that happens, and you modify the 1byte nop and 5byte nop with a
> single 6 byte command, when the task get's rescheduled, it will execute the
> last 5 bytes of that 6 byte command and take a general protection fault, and
> likely crash the machine.
> 
> NACK on this. It needs a better solution.
> 
> -- Steve
> 
>
Hi Steve,

Sorry for not providing the original patch link:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190131192533.34130-22-thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

I drop the Reviewed-by tag due to the change described in commit
message.

This nop patching is only used for the first time (addr = MCOUNT) before
SMP or executing code in module. And ftrace_make_call() is not modified,
then we would use 5 byte direct call to replace the first 5 byte nop
when tracepoint is enabled like before, it's still one instruction. So,
the logic is same like before, patch the first 5 byte when tracepoint is
enabled or disabled during running.

> > 
> > [Hou Wenlong: Adapt code change and fix wrong offset calculation in
> > make_nop_x86()]
> >