Re: [PATCH] x86: Allow for exclusions in checking RETHUNK

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Jul 14 2022 - 14:56:52 EST


On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:50:08AM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 09:18:12AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 04:55:56PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > Here's the ANNOTATE_UNSAFE_RET idea.
> >
> > Right, I suppose that strictly speaking the compiler can do whatever and
> > there's no actual guarantee the annotation hits the RET instruction, in
> > practise it should work, esp. since noinstr.
>
> Hm, KASAN is introducing a weird function, resulting in a naked return
> warning since we have RETHUNK_CFLAGS removed on that file.
>
> 0000000000000000 <_sub_I_00099_0>:
> 0: e8 00 00 00 00 call 5 <_sub_I_00099_0+0x5> 1: R_X86_64_PLT32 __tsan_init-0x4
> 5: c3 ret
>
>
> Looks like the "KASAN_SANITIZE_rodata.o := n" isn't working somehow?

Oh never mind, I got KASAN/KCSCAN mixed up. Needs both disabled :-/

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Josh