Re: [PATCH] x86/kvm, objtool: Avoid fastop ENDBR from being sealed

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 12:56:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Add (yet another) annotation to inhibit objtool from sealing a specific
> ENDBR instance.

Nah, just add a throwaway reference to the function.  Then no objtool
change is needed:

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h
index 689880eca9ba..3ae795150374 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ibt.h
@@ -31,6 +31,16 @@
 
 #define __noendbr	__attribute__((nocf_check))
 
+/*
+ * Create a dummy function pointer reference to prevent objtool from marking
+ * the function as needing to be "sealed" (i.e. ENDBR converted to NOP by
+ * apply_ibt_endbr()).
+ */
+#define IBT_NOSEAL(fname)				\
+	".pushsection .discard.endbr.noseal\n\t"	\
+	_ASM_PTR fname "\n\t"				\
+	".popsection\n\t"
+
 static inline __attribute_const__ u32 gen_endbr(void)
 {
 	u32 endbr;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index f8382abe22ff..88623add0db4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -316,7 +316,8 @@ static int fastop(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, fastop_t fop);
 	".align " __stringify(FASTOP_SIZE) " \n\t" \
 	".type " name ", @function \n\t" \
 	name ":\n\t" \
-	ASM_ENDBR
+	ASM_ENDBR \
+	IBT_NOSEAL(name)
 
 #define FOP_FUNC(name) \
 	__FOP_FUNC(#name)