Re: [PATCH v2 05/17] workqueue: use WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:11 AM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, a callback function passed to
> __queue_delayed_work from a module points to a jump table entry
> defined in the module instead of the one used in the core kernel,
> which breaks function address equality in this check:
>
>   WARN_ON_ONCE(timer->function != delayed_work_timer_fn);
>
> Use WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH() instead to disable the warning
> when CFI and modules are both enabled.

Does __cficanonical help with such comparisons? Or would that be a
very invasive change, if the concern was to try to keep these checks
in place for CONFIG_CFI_CLANG?

>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
> index 0d150da252e8..03fe07d2f39f 100644
> --- a/kernel/workqueue.c
> +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
> @@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ static void __queue_delayed_work(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
>         struct work_struct *work = &dwork->work;
>
>         WARN_ON_ONCE(!wq);
> -       WARN_ON_ONCE(timer->function != delayed_work_timer_fn);
> +       WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH(timer->function, delayed_work_timer_fn);
>         WARN_ON_ONCE(timer_pending(timer));
>         WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&work->entry));
>
> --
> 2.31.0.291.g576ba9dcdaf-goog
>


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers