[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 48/85] arm64: entry: don't instrument entry code with KCOV

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Jul 04 2021 - 19:05:58 EST


From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit bf6fa2c0dda751863c3446aa64d733013bec4a19 ]

The code in entry-common.c runs at exception entry and return
boundaries, where portions of the kernel environment aren't available.
For example, RCU may not be watching, and lockdep state may be
out-of-sync with the hardware. Due to this, it is not sound to
instrument this code.

We generally avoid instrumentation by marking the entry functions as
`noinstr`, but currently this doesn't inhibit KCOV instrumentation.
Prevent this by disabling KCOV for the entire compilation unit.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210607094624.34689-20-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
index 6cc97730790e..787c3c83edd7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_return_address.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
CFLAGS_REMOVE_syscall.o = -fstack-protector -fstack-protector-strong
CFLAGS_syscall.o += -fno-stack-protector

+# It's not safe to invoke KCOV when portions of the kernel environment aren't
+# available or are out-of-sync with HW state. Since `noinstr` doesn't always
+# inhibit KCOV instrumentation, disable it for the entire compilation unit.
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT_entry.o := n
+
# Object file lists.
obj-y := debug-monitors.o entry.o irq.o fpsimd.o \
entry-common.o entry-fpsimd.o process.o ptrace.o \
--
2.30.2