[PATCH RFC 5/8] arm64: cfi: Use CONFIG_ARM64_FUNCTION_PREFIX_NOPS for the type hash offset
From: Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)
Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 21:20:01 EST
Make cfi_get_offset(), SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START and the BPF JIT use
CONFIG_ARM64_FUNCTION_PREFIX_NOPS instead of hardcoding four bytes. kCFI
kernels with CALL_OPS need three NOPs, or five with ThinLTO and BTI.
CONFIG_ARM64_FUNCTION_PREFIX_NOPS is 0 on every CFI kernel today, so no
functional change.
Reviewed-by: Ben Cressey <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Florent Revest (Anthropic) <florent.revest@xxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jose Fernandez (Anthropic) <jose.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/cfi.h | 8 ++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/linkage.h | 11 +++++++++++
arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 8 ++++++--
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cfi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cfi.h
index ab90f0351b7ae..03f02d4614c23 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cfi.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cfi.h
@@ -4,4 +4,12 @@
#define __bpfcall
+#ifdef CONFIG_CFI
+static inline int cfi_get_offset(void)
+{
+ return 4 + 4 * CONFIG_ARM64_FUNCTION_PREFIX_NOPS;
+}
+#define cfi_get_offset cfi_get_offset
+#endif /* CONFIG_CFI */
+
#endif /* _ASM_ARM64_CFI_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/linkage.h
index d1f7a16729d25..14bc3c67c38b3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/linkage.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/linkage.h
@@ -39,6 +39,17 @@
SYM_START(name, SYM_L_WEAK, SYM_A_NONE) \
bti c ;
+/*
+ * The compiler emits CONFIG_ARM64_FUNCTION_PREFIX_NOPS NOPs between a C
+ * function's kCFI type hash and its entry point. Callers check the hash
+ * at that offset.
+ */
+#define __CFI_TYPE(name) \
+ .4byte __kcfi_typeid_##name ASM_NL \
+ .rept CONFIG_ARM64_FUNCTION_PREFIX_NOPS ASM_NL \
+ nop ASM_NL \
+ .endr
+
#define SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START(name) \
SYM_TYPED_START(name, SYM_L_GLOBAL, SYM_A_ALIGN) \
bti c ;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index c18e005a41dbe..7ad14d9847138 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -185,8 +185,12 @@ static inline void emit_bti(u32 insn, struct jit_ctx *ctx)
static inline void emit_kcfi(u32 hash, struct jit_ctx *ctx)
{
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CFI))
- emit_u32_data(hash, ctx);
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CFI))
+ return;
+
+ emit_u32_data(hash, ctx);
+ for (int i = 0; i < CONFIG_ARM64_FUNCTION_PREFIX_NOPS; i++)
+ emit(A64_NOP, ctx);
}
/*
--
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