Commit eda3dc90 authored by Julien Thierry's avatar Julien Thierry Committed by Josh Poimboeuf
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objtool: Abstract alternative special case handling



Some alternatives associated with a specific feature need to be treated
in a special way. Since the features and how to treat them vary from one
architecture to another, move the special case handling to arch specific
code.

Reviewed-by: default avatarMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
parent c8ea0d67
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objtool-y += special.o
objtool-y += decode.o

inat_tables_script = ../arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#include "../../special.h"
#include "../../builtin.h"

#define X86_FEATURE_POPCNT (4 * 32 + 23)
#define X86_FEATURE_SMAP   (9 * 32 + 20)

void arch_handle_alternative(unsigned short feature, struct special_alt *alt)
{
	switch (feature) {
	case X86_FEATURE_SMAP:
		/*
		 * If UACCESS validation is enabled; force that alternative;
		 * otherwise force it the other way.
		 *
		 * What we want to avoid is having both the original and the
		 * alternative code flow at the same time, in that case we can
		 * find paths that see the STAC but take the NOP instead of
		 * CLAC and the other way around.
		 */
		if (uaccess)
			alt->skip_orig = true;
		else
			alt->skip_alt = true;
		break;
	case X86_FEATURE_POPCNT:
		/*
		 * It has been requested that we don't validate the !POPCNT
		 * feature path which is a "very very small percentage of
		 * machines".
		 */
		alt->skip_orig = true;
		break;
	default:
		break;
	}
}
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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@

#include "elf.h"

#define __weak __attribute__((weak))

struct objtool_file {
	struct elf *elf;
	struct list_head insn_list;
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@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@
#include "warn.h"
#include "arch_special.h"

#define X86_FEATURE_POPCNT (4*32+23)
#define X86_FEATURE_SMAP   (9*32+20)

struct special_entry {
	const char *sec;
	bool group, jump_or_nop;
@@ -54,6 +51,10 @@ struct special_entry entries[] = {
	{},
};

void __weak arch_handle_alternative(unsigned short feature, struct special_alt *alt)
{
}

static int get_alt_entry(struct elf *elf, struct special_entry *entry,
			 struct section *sec, int idx,
			 struct special_alt *alt)
@@ -78,30 +79,7 @@ static int get_alt_entry(struct elf *elf, struct special_entry *entry,

		feature = *(unsigned short *)(sec->data->d_buf + offset +
					      entry->feature);

		/*
		 * It has been requested that we don't validate the !POPCNT
		 * feature path which is a "very very small percentage of
		 * machines".
		 */
		if (feature == X86_FEATURE_POPCNT)
			alt->skip_orig = true;

		/*
		 * If UACCESS validation is enabled; force that alternative;
		 * otherwise force it the other way.
		 *
		 * What we want to avoid is having both the original and the
		 * alternative code flow at the same time, in that case we can
		 * find paths that see the STAC but take the NOP instead of
		 * CLAC and the other way around.
		 */
		if (feature == X86_FEATURE_SMAP) {
			if (uaccess)
				alt->skip_orig = true;
			else
				alt->skip_alt = true;
		}
		arch_handle_alternative(feature, alt);
	}

	orig_reloc = find_reloc_by_dest(elf, sec, offset + entry->orig);
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@@ -28,4 +28,6 @@ struct special_alt {

int special_get_alts(struct elf *elf, struct list_head *alts);

void arch_handle_alternative(unsigned short feature, struct special_alt *alt);

#endif /* _SPECIAL_H */
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