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Josh Poimboeuf
6245ce4ab6 objtool: Move noreturn function list to separate file
This makes it a little cleaner and easier to maintain.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cecacf07a69a244c74474c18b7652627de67a528.1681853186.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2023-05-16 06:31:55 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
fedb724c3d objtool: Detect missing __noreturn annotations
Most "unreachable instruction" warnings these days seem to actually be
the result of a missing __noreturn annotation.  Add an explicit check
for that.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6e2b93d8c65eaed6c4166a358269dc0ef01f890c.1681853186.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2023-05-16 06:31:53 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
ced23d2e37 objtool: Include backtrace in verbose mode
Include backtrace in verbose mode.  This makes it easy to gather all the
information needed for diagnosing objtool warnings.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c255224fabcf7e64bac232fec1c77c9fc2d7d7ab.1681853186.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2023-05-16 06:31:52 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
ca653464dd objtool: Add verbose option for disassembling affected functions
When a warning is associated with a function, add an option to
disassemble that function.

This makes it easier for reporters to submit the information needed to
diagnose objtool warnings.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dd0fe13428ede186f09c74059a8001f4adcea5fc.1681853186.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2023-05-16 06:31:51 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
ff61f0791c docs: move x86 documentation into Documentation/arch/
Move the x86 documentation under Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning
up the top-level directory and making the structure of our docs more
closely match the structure of the source directories it describes.

All in-kernel references to the old paths have been updated.

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-30 12:58:51 -06:00
Michal Kubecek
03d7a1053c objtool: Check that module init/exit function is an indirect call target
Some out-of-tree modules still do not use module_init() / module_exit()
macros and simply create functions with magic names init_module() and
cleanup_module() instead. As a result, these functions are not recognized
as indirect call targets by objtool and such module fails to load into an
IBT enabled kernel.

This old way is not even documented any more but it is cleaner to issue
a warning than to let the module fail on load without obvious reason.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230118105215.B9DA960514@lion.mk-sys.cz
2023-01-21 10:50:18 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
a8e35fece4 objtool: Update documentation
The objtool documentation is very stack validation centric.  Broaden the
documentation and describe all the features objtool supports.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6a84d301d9f73ec6725752654097f4e31fa1b69.1650300597.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2022-04-22 12:32:05 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
c9c324dc22 objtool: Support stack layout changes in alternatives
The ORC unwinder showed a warning [1] which revealed the stack layout
didn't match what was expected.  The problem was that paravirt patching
had replaced "CALL *pv_ops.irq.save_fl" with "PUSHF;POP".  That changed
the stack layout between the PUSHF and the POP, so unwinding from an
interrupt which occurred between those two instructions would fail.

Part of the agreed upon solution was to rework the custom paravirt
patching code to use alternatives instead, since objtool already knows
how to read alternatives (and converging runtime patching infrastructure
is always a good thing anyway).  But the main problem still remains,
which is that runtime patching can change the stack layout.

Making stack layout changes in alternatives was disallowed with commit
7117f16bf4 ("objtool: Fix ORC vs alternatives"), but now that paravirt
is going to be doing it, it needs to be supported.

One way to do so would be to modify the ORC table when the code gets
patched.  But ORC is simple -- a good thing! -- and it's best to leave
it alone.

Instead, support stack layout changes by "flattening" all possible stack
states (CFI) from parallel alternative code streams into a single set of
linear states.  The only necessary limitation is that CFI conflicts are
disallowed at all possible instruction boundaries.

For example, this scenario is allowed:

          Alt1                    Alt2                    Alt3

   0x00   CALL *pv_ops.save_fl    CALL xen_save_fl        PUSHF
   0x01                                                   POP %RAX
   0x02                                                   NOP
   ...
   0x05                           NOP
   ...
   0x07   <insn>

The unwind information for offset-0x00 is identical for all 3
alternatives.  Similarly offset-0x05 and higher also are identical (and
the same as 0x00).  However offset-0x01 has deviating CFI, but that is
only relevant for Alt3, neither of the other alternative instruction
streams will ever hit that offset.

This scenario is NOT allowed:

          Alt1                    Alt2

   0x00   CALL *pv_ops.save_fl    PUSHF
   0x01                           NOP6
   ...
   0x07   NOP                     POP %RAX

The problem here is that offset-0x7, which is an instruction boundary in
both possible instruction patch streams, has two conflicting stack
layouts.

[ The above examples were stolen from Peter Zijlstra. ]

The new flattened CFI array is used both for the detection of conflicts
(like the second example above) and the generation of linear ORC
entries.

BTW, another benefit of these changes is that, thanks to some related
cleanups (new fake nops and alt_group struct) objtool can finally be rid
of fake jumps, which were a constant source of headaches.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201111170536.arx2zbn4ngvjoov7@treble

Cc: Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2021-01-14 09:53:54 -06:00
Alexandre Chartre
8aa8eb2a8f objtool: Add support for intra-function calls
Change objtool to support intra-function calls. On x86, an intra-function
call is represented in objtool as a push onto the stack (of the return
address), and a jump to the destination address. That way the stack
information is correctly updated and the call flow is still accurate.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414103618.12657-4-alexandre.chartre@oracle.com
2020-04-30 20:14:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7117f16bf4 objtool: Fix ORC vs alternatives
Jann reported that (for instance) entry_64.o:general_protection has
very odd ORC data:

  0000000000000f40 <general_protection>:
  #######sp:sp+8 bp:(und) type:iret end:0
    f40:       90                      nop
  #######sp:(und) bp:(und) type:call end:0
    f41:       90                      nop
    f42:       90                      nop
  #######sp:sp+8 bp:(und) type:iret end:0
    f43:       e8 a8 01 00 00          callq  10f0 <error_entry>
  #######sp:sp+0 bp:(und) type:regs end:0
    f48:       f6 84 24 88 00 00 00    testb  $0x3,0x88(%rsp)
    f4f:       03
    f50:       74 00                   je     f52 <general_protection+0x12>
    f52:       48 89 e7                mov    %rsp,%rdi
    f55:       48 8b 74 24 78          mov    0x78(%rsp),%rsi
    f5a:       48 c7 44 24 78 ff ff    movq   $0xffffffffffffffff,0x78(%rsp)
    f61:       ff ff
    f63:       e8 00 00 00 00          callq  f68 <general_protection+0x28>
    f68:       e9 73 02 00 00          jmpq   11e0 <error_exit>
  #######sp:(und) bp:(und) type:call end:0
    f6d:       0f 1f 00                nopl   (%rax)

Note the entry at 0xf41. Josh found this was the result of commit:

  764eef4b10 ("objtool: Rewrite alt->skip_orig")

Due to the early return in validate_branch() we no longer set
insn->cfi of the original instruction stream (the NOPs at 0xf41 and
0xf42) and we'll end up with the above weirdness.

In other discussions we realized alternatives should be ORC invariant;
that is, due to there being only a single ORC table, it must be valid
for all alternatives. The easiest way to ensure this is to not allow
any stack modifications in alternatives.

When we enforce this latter observation, we get the property that the
whole alternative must have the same CFI, which we can employ to fix
the former report.

Fixes: 764eef4b10 ("objtool: Rewrite alt->skip_orig")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428191659.499074346@infradead.org
2020-04-30 20:14:31 +02:00
Nick Desaulniers
e378fa17d3 objtool: Documentation: document UACCESS warnings
Compiling with Clang and CONFIG_KASAN=y was exposing a few warnings:

  call to memset() with UACCESS enabled

Document how to fix these for future travelers.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/876
Suggested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@vmware.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-04-22 10:53:49 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
cb1aaebea8 docs: fix broken documentation links
Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation
links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-08 13:42:13 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
b2ca74d32b Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "A handful of objtool updates, plus a documentation addition for
  __ab_c_size()"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  objtool: Fix whitelist documentation typo
  objtool: Fix function fallthrough detection
  objtool: Don't use ignore flag for fake jumps
  overflow.h: Add comment documenting __ab_c_size()
2019-05-16 10:29:00 -07:00
Raphael Gault
2decec48b0 objtool: Fix whitelist documentation typo
The directive specified in the documentation to add an exception
for a single file in a Makefile was inverted.

Signed-off-by: Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/522362a1b934ee39d0af0abb231f68e160ecf1a8.1557874043.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-05-15 07:57:50 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
89e33ea732 docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
Convert livepatch documentation to ReST format. The changes
are mostly trivial, as the documents are already on a good
shape. Just a few markup changes are needed for Sphinx to
properly parse the docs.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - The in-file TOC becomes a comment, in order to skip it from the
    output, as Sphinx already generates an index there.
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-07 16:05:49 -06:00
Josh Poimboeuf
f5caf621ee x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang
For inline asm statements which have a CALL instruction, we list the
stack pointer as a constraint to convince GCC to ensure the frame
pointer is set up first:

  static inline void foo()
  {
	register void *__sp asm(_ASM_SP);
	asm("call bar" : "+r" (__sp))
  }

Unfortunately, that pattern causes Clang to corrupt the stack pointer.

The fix is easy: convert the stack pointer register variable to a global
variable.

It should be noted that the end result is different based on the GCC
version.  With GCC 6.4, this patch has exactly the same result as
before:

	defconfig	defconfig-nofp	distro		distro-nofp
 before	9820389		9491555		8816046		8516940
 after	9820389		9491555		8816046		8516940

With GCC 7.2, however, GCC's behavior has changed.  It now changes its
behavior based on the conversion of the register variable to a global.
That somehow convinces it to *always* set up the frame pointer before
inserting *any* inline asm.  (Therefore, listing the variable as an
output constraint is a no-op and is no longer necessary.)  It's a bit
overkill, but the performance impact should be negligible.  And in fact,
there's a nice improvement with frame pointers disabled:

	defconfig	defconfig-nofp	distro		distro-nofp
 before	9796316		9468236		9076191		8790305
 after	9796957		9464267		9076381		8785949

So in summary, while listing the stack pointer as an output constraint
is no longer necessary for newer versions of GCC, it's still needed for
older versions.

Suggested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Reported-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin <miguel.bernal.marin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3db862e970c432ae823cf515c52b54fec8270e0e.1505942196.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-23 15:06:20 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
627fce1480 objtool: Add ORC unwind table generation
Now that objtool knows the states of all registers on the stack for each
instruction, it's straightforward to generate debuginfo for an unwinder
to use.

Instead of generating DWARF, generate a new format called ORC, which is
more suitable for an in-kernel unwinder.  See
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for a more detailed description of
this new debuginfo format and why it's preferable to DWARF.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9b9f01ba6c5ed2bdc9bb0957b78167fdbf9632e.1499786555.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-18 10:57:43 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
baa41469a7 objtool: Implement stack validation 2.0
This is a major rewrite of objtool.  Instead of only tracking frame
pointer changes, it now tracks all stack-related operations, including
all register saves/restores.

In addition to making stack validation more robust, this also paves the
way for undwarf generation.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/678bd94c0566c6129bcc376cddb259c4c5633004.1498659915.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-30 10:19:19 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
b1547d3101 objtool: Detect falling through to the next function
There are several cases in compiled C code where a function may not
return at the end, and may instead fall through to the next function.

That may indicate a bug in the code, or a gcc bug, or even an objtool
bug.  But in each case, objtool reports an unhelpful warning, something
like:

  drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_fc_host_stats()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save
  drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_fc_host_stats()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch

Detect this situation and print a more useful error message:

  drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_host_fabric_name() falls through to next function qla2x00_get_starget_node_name()

Also add some information about this warning and its potential causes to
the documentation.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/caa4ec6c687931db805e692d4e4bf06cd87d33e6.1460729697.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-16 11:14:17 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf
442f04c34a objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
This adds a host tool named objtool which has a "check" subcommand which
analyzes .o files to ensure the validity of stack metadata.  It enforces
a set of rules on asm code and C inline assembly code so that stack
traces can be reliable.

For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths and
validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.

It also follows code paths involving kernel special sections, like
.altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
instructions).  Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements, for
which gcc sometimes uses jump tables.

Here are some of the benefits of validating stack metadata:

a) More reliable stack traces for frame pointer enabled kernels

   Frame pointers are used for debugging purposes.  They allow runtime
   code and debug tools to be able to walk the stack to determine the
   chain of function call sites that led to the currently executing
   code.

   For some architectures, frame pointers are enabled by
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.  For some other architectures they may be
   required by the ABI (sometimes referred to as "backchain pointers").

   For C code, gcc automatically generates instructions for setting up
   frame pointers when the -fno-omit-frame-pointer option is used.

   But for asm code, the frame setup instructions have to be written by
   hand, which most people don't do.  So the end result is that
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is honored for C code but not for most asm code.

   For stack traces based on frame pointers to be reliable, all
   functions which call other functions must first create a stack frame
   and update the frame pointer.  If a first function doesn't properly
   create a stack frame before calling a second function, the *caller*
   of the first function will be skipped on the stack trace.

   For example, consider the following example backtrace with frame
   pointers enabled:

     [<ffffffff81812584>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x63
     [<ffffffff812d6dc2>] cmdline_proc_show+0x12/0x30
     [<ffffffff8127f568>] seq_read+0x108/0x3e0
     [<ffffffff812cce62>] proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
     [<ffffffff81256197>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x100
     [<ffffffff81256b16>] vfs_read+0x86/0x130
     [<ffffffff81257898>] SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
     [<ffffffff8181c1f2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76

   It correctly shows that the caller of cmdline_proc_show() is
   seq_read().

   If we remove the frame pointer logic from cmdline_proc_show() by
   replacing the frame pointer related instructions with nops, here's
   what it looks like instead:

     [<ffffffff81812584>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x63
     [<ffffffff812d6dc2>] cmdline_proc_show+0x12/0x30
     [<ffffffff812cce62>] proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
     [<ffffffff81256197>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x100
     [<ffffffff81256b16>] vfs_read+0x86/0x130
     [<ffffffff81257898>] SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
     [<ffffffff8181c1f2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76

   Notice that cmdline_proc_show()'s caller, seq_read(), has been
   skipped.  Instead the stack trace seems to show that
   cmdline_proc_show() was called by proc_reg_read().

   The benefit of "objtool check" here is that because it ensures that
   *all* functions honor CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, no functions will ever[*]
   be skipped on a stack trace.

   [*] unless an interrupt or exception has occurred at the very
       beginning of a function before the stack frame has been created,
       or at the very end of the function after the stack frame has been
       destroyed.  This is an inherent limitation of frame pointers.

b) 100% reliable stack traces for DWARF enabled kernels

   This is not yet implemented.  For more details about what is planned,
   see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.

c) Higher live patching compatibility rate

   This is not yet implemented.  For more details about what is planned,
   see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.

To achieve the validation, "objtool check" enforces the following rules:

1. Each callable function must be annotated as such with the ELF
   function type.  In asm code, this is typically done using the
   ENTRY/ENDPROC macros.  If objtool finds a return instruction
   outside of a function, it flags an error since that usually indicates
   callable code which should be annotated accordingly.

   This rule is needed so that objtool can properly identify each
   callable function in order to analyze its stack metadata.

2. Conversely, each section of code which is *not* callable should *not*
   be annotated as an ELF function.  The ENDPROC macro shouldn't be used
   in this case.

   This rule is needed so that objtool can ignore non-callable code.
   Such code doesn't have to follow any of the other rules.

3. Each callable function which calls another function must have the
   correct frame pointer logic, if required by CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER or
   the architecture's back chain rules.  This can by done in asm code
   with the FRAME_BEGIN/FRAME_END macros.

   This rule ensures that frame pointer based stack traces will work as
   designed.  If function A doesn't create a stack frame before calling
   function B, the _caller_ of function A will be skipped on the stack
   trace.

4. Dynamic jumps and jumps to undefined symbols are only allowed if:

   a) the jump is part of a switch statement; or

   b) the jump matches sibling call semantics and the frame pointer has
      the same value it had on function entry.

   This rule is needed so that objtool can reliably analyze all of a
   function's code paths.  If a function jumps to code in another file,
   and it's not a sibling call, objtool has no way to follow the jump
   because it only analyzes a single file at a time.

5. A callable function may not execute kernel entry/exit instructions.
   The only code which needs such instructions is kernel entry code,
   which shouldn't be be in callable functions anyway.

   This rule is just a sanity check to ensure that callable functions
   return normally.

It currently only supports x86_64.  I tried to make the code generic so
that support for other architectures can hopefully be plugged in
relatively easily.

On my Lenovo laptop with a i7-4810MQ 4-core/8-thread CPU, building the
kernel with objtool checking every .o file adds about three seconds of
total build time.  It hasn't been optimized for performance yet, so
there are probably some opportunities for better build performance.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f3efb173de43bd067b060de73f856567c0fa1174.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 08:35:12 +01:00