Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 4 authors, 2021-10-11

Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: ftrace: use function_nocfi for _mcount as well

From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Date: 2021-10-05 15:20:17
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Hi Sumit,

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 5:37 AM Sumit Garg [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Commit 800618f955a9 ("arm64: ftrace: use function_nocfi for ftrace_call")
only fixed address of ftrace_call but address of _mcount needs to be
fixed as well. Use function_nocfi() to get the actual address of _mcount
function as with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler replaces function pointers
with jump table addresses which breaks dynamic ftrace as the address of
_mcount is replaced with the address of _mcount.cfi_jt.

This problem won't apply where the toolchain implements
-fpatchable-function-entry as we'll use that in preference to regular -pg,
i.e. this won't show up with recent versions of clang.

Fixes: 9186ad8e66bab6a1 ("arm64: allow CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected")
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <redacted>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
---

Changes in v2:
- Added fixes tag.
- Extended commit description.
- Picked up Mark's ack.

 arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
index 91fa4baa1a93..347b0cc68f07 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
 #define ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_OPS 1
 #else
-#define MCOUNT_ADDR            ((unsigned long)_mcount)
+#define MCOUNT_ADDR            ((unsigned long)function_nocfi(_mcount))
 #endif

 /* The BL at the callsite's adjusted rec->ip */
--
2.17.1
Clang >= 10 supports -fpatchable-function-entry and CFI requires Clang
12, so I assume this is only an issue if
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is explicitly disabled?

Nevertheless, the patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

Sami

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