[PATCH 4.15 24/60] objtool: Improve retpoline alternative handling

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Feb 05 2018 - 13:29:27 EST


4.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx

commit a845c7cf4b4cb5e9e3b2823867892b27646f3a98

Currently objtool requires all retpolines to be:

a) patched in with alternatives; and

b) annotated with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.

If you forget to do both of the above, objtool segfaults trying to
dereference a NULL 'insn->call_dest' pointer.

Avoid that situation and print a more helpful error message:

quirks.o: warning: objtool: efi_delete_dummy_variable()+0x99: unsupported intra-function call
quirks.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.

Future improvements can be made to make objtool smarter with respect to
retpolines, but this is a good incremental improvement for now.

Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/819e50b6d9c2e1a22e34c1a636c0b2057cc8c6e5.1517284349.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
tools/objtool/check.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -543,18 +543,14 @@ static int add_call_destinations(struct
dest_off = insn->offset + insn->len + insn->immediate;
insn->call_dest = find_symbol_by_offset(insn->sec,
dest_off);
- /*
- * FIXME: Thanks to retpolines, it's now considered
- * normal for a function to call within itself. So
- * disable this warning for now.
- */
-#if 0
- if (!insn->call_dest) {
- WARN_FUNC("can't find call dest symbol at offset 0x%lx",
- insn->sec, insn->offset, dest_off);
+
+ if (!insn->call_dest && !insn->ignore) {
+ WARN_FUNC("unsupported intra-function call",
+ insn->sec, insn->offset);
+ WARN("If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.");
return -1;
}
-#endif
+
} else if (rela->sym->type == STT_SECTION) {
insn->call_dest = find_symbol_by_offset(rela->sym->sec,
rela->addend+4);
@@ -648,6 +644,8 @@ static int handle_group_alt(struct objto

last_new_insn = insn;

+ insn->ignore = orig_insn->ignore_alts;
+
if (insn->type != INSN_JUMP_CONDITIONAL &&
insn->type != INSN_JUMP_UNCONDITIONAL)
continue;
@@ -729,10 +727,6 @@ static int add_special_section_alts(stru
goto out;
}

- /* Ignore retpoline alternatives. */
- if (orig_insn->ignore_alts)
- continue;
-
new_insn = NULL;
if (!special_alt->group || special_alt->new_len) {
new_insn = find_insn(file, special_alt->new_sec,
@@ -1089,11 +1083,11 @@ static int decode_sections(struct objtoo
if (ret)
return ret;

- ret = add_call_destinations(file);
+ ret = add_special_section_alts(file);
if (ret)
return ret;

- ret = add_special_section_alts(file);
+ ret = add_call_destinations(file);
if (ret)
return ret;

@@ -1720,10 +1714,12 @@ static int validate_branch(struct objtoo

insn->visited = true;

- list_for_each_entry(alt, &insn->alts, list) {
- ret = validate_branch(file, alt->insn, state);
- if (ret)
- return 1;
+ if (!insn->ignore_alts) {
+ list_for_each_entry(alt, &insn->alts, list) {
+ ret = validate_branch(file, alt->insn, state);
+ if (ret)
+ return 1;
+ }
}

switch (insn->type) {