linux/init
Josh Poimboeuf 2d7ce49f58 x86/retpoline: Make sure there are no unconverted return thunks due to KCSAN
Enabling CONFIG_KCSAN leads to unconverted, default return thunks to
remain after patching.

As David Kaplan describes in his debugging of the issue, it is caused by
a couple of KCSAN-generated constructors which aren't processed by
objtool:

  "When KCSAN is enabled, GCC generates lots of constructor functions
  named _sub_I_00099_0 which call __tsan_init and then return.  The
  returns in these are generally annotated normally by objtool and fixed
  up at runtime.  But objtool runs on vmlinux.o and vmlinux.o does not
  include a couple of object files that are in vmlinux, like
  init/version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o, both of which contain
  _sub_I_00099_0 functions.  As a result, the returns in these functions
  are not annotated, and the panic occurs when we call one of them in
  do_ctors and it uses the default return thunk.

  This difference can be seen by counting the number of these functions in the object files:
  $ objdump -d vmlinux.o|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:"
  2601
  $ objdump -d vmlinux|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:"
  2603

  If these functions are only run during kernel boot, there is no
  speculation concern."

Fix it by disabling KCSAN on version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o
so the extra functions don't get generated.  KASAN and GCOV are already
disabled for those files.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231016214810.GA3942238@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017165946.v4i2d4exyqwqq3bx@treble
2023-10-20 13:02:23 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
build-version kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
calibrate.c
do_mounts_initrd.c init: pass root_device_name explicitly 2023-06-05 10:55:20 -06:00
do_mounts_rd.c
do_mounts.c init: Add support for rootwait timeout parameter 2023-08-15 11:34:23 +02:00
do_mounts.h init: pass root_device_name explicitly 2023-06-05 10:55:20 -06:00
init_task.c rcu-tasks: Add data structures for lightweight grace periods 2022-06-20 09:22:28 -07:00
initramfs.c mm: remove arguments of show_mem() 2023-08-18 10:12:02 -07:00
Kconfig - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
main.c workqueue: Initialize unbound CPU pods later in the boot 2023-08-07 15:57:24 -10:00
Makefile x86/retpoline: Make sure there are no unconverted return thunks due to KCSAN 2023-10-20 13:02:23 +02:00
noinitramfs.c init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs() 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
version-timestamp.c init/version-timestamp.c: remove unneeded #include <linux/version.h> 2023-01-09 07:34:38 +09:00
version.c init/version.c: remove #include <generated/utsrelease.h> 2022-12-10 10:33:20 +09:00