x86/entry: Emit a symbol for register restoring thunk
authorNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:46:24 +0000 (11:46 -0800)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:18:25 +0000 (17:18 +0100)
commit5e6dca82bcaa49348f9e5fcb48df4881f6d6c4ae
treea04ed97a7888347804f1e9a4c2cf61fa62dc6ad9
parent7c53f6b671f4aba70ff15e1b05148b10d58c2837
x86/entry: Emit a symbol for register restoring thunk

Arnd found a randconfig that produces the warning:

  arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for insn at
  offset 0x3e

when building with LLVM_IAS=1 (Clang's integrated assembler). Josh
notes:

  With the LLVM assembler not generating section symbols, objtool has no
  way to reference this code when it generates ORC unwinder entries,
  because this code is outside of any ELF function.

  The limitation now being imposed by objtool is that all code must be
  contained in an ELF symbol.  And .L symbols don't create such symbols.

  So basically, you can use an .L symbol *inside* a function or a code
  segment, you just can't use the .L symbol to contain the code using a
  SYM_*_START/END annotation pair.

Fangrui notes that this optimization is helpful for reducing image size
when compiling with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections. I have
observed on the order of tens of thousands of symbols for the kernel
images built with those flags.

A patch has been authored against GNU binutils to match this behavior
of not generating unused section symbols ([1]), so this will
also become a problem for users of GNU binutils once they upgrade to 2.36.

Omit the .L prefix on a label so that the assembler will emit an entry
into the symbol table for the label, with STB_LOCAL binding. This
enables objtool to generate proper unwind info here with LLVM_IAS=1 or
GNU binutils 2.36+.

 [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Suggested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210112194625.4181814-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1209
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93783
Link: https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Symbol-Names.html
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d1bcae833b32f1408485ce69f844dcd7ded093a8
Documentation/asm-annotations.rst
arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S
include/linux/linkage.h