[PATCH] riscv: Implement _THIS_IP_ using inline asm

From: Marco Elver

Date: Wed May 20 2026 - 20:15:32 EST


Both GCC [1] and Clang [2] consider the generic version of _THIS_IP_ to
be broken:

#define _THIS_IP_ ({ __label__ __here; __here: (unsigned long)&&__here; })

In particular, the address of a label is only expected to be used with a
computed goto.

While the generic version more or less works today, it is known to be
brittle and may break with current and future optimizations. For
example, Clang -O2 always returns 1 when this function is inlined:

static inline unsigned long get_ip(void)
{ return ({ __label__ __here; __here: (unsigned long)&&__here; }); }

Fix it by overriding _THIS_IP_ in <asm/linkage.h> (which is included by
<linux/instruction_pointer.h>) using an architecture-specific inline asm
version. Additionally, avoiding taking the address of a label prevents
compilers from emitting spurious indirect branch targets (e.g. ENDBR or
BTI) under control-flow integrity schemes.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120071 [1]
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/138272 [2]
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/linkage.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/linkage.h
index 9e88ba23cd2b..7e0210ef4eb4 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/linkage.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/linkage.h
@@ -9,4 +9,6 @@
#define __ALIGN .balign 4
#define __ALIGN_STR ".balign 4"

+#define _THIS_IP_ ({ unsigned long __ip; asm volatile("auipc %0, 0" : "=r" (__ip)); __ip; })
+
#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_LINKAGE_H */
--
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