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STALE1733d REVIEWED: 8 (8M)

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[PATCH 5.14 345/849] x86/xen: Mark cpu_bringup_and_idle() as dead_end_function

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-11-15 22:52:10
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: objtool, the rest · Maintainers: Josh Poimboeuf, Peter Zijlstra, Linus Torvalds

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

[ Upstream commit 9af9dcf11bda3e2c0e24c1acaacb8685ad974e93 ]

The asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle() function is required to push the return
value on the stack in order to make ORC happy, but the only reason
objtool doesn't complain is because of a happy accident.

The thing is that asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle() doesn't return, so
validate_branch() never terminates and falls through to the next
function, which in the normal case is the hypercall_page. And that, as
it happens, is 4095 NOPs and a RET.

Make asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle() terminate on it's own, by making the
function it calls as a dead-end. This way we no longer rely on what
code happens to come after.

Fixes: c3881eb58d56 ("x86/xen: Make the secondary CPU idle tasks reliable")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624095147.693801717@infradead.org (local)
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 tools/objtool/check.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index e5947fbb9e7a6..0e3981d91afc1 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ static bool __dead_end_function(struct objtool_file *file, struct symbol *func,
 		"rewind_stack_do_exit",
 		"kunit_try_catch_throw",
 		"xen_start_kernel",
+		"cpu_bringup_and_idle",
 	};
 
 	if (!func)
-- 
2.33.0


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