Re: [PATCH] x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT

[Joao Moreira]

> > Is it useful to get the compiler to emit 0xcc with
> > -fpatchable-function-entry under any circumstance? I can probably 
> > change
> > that quickly if needed/useful.
>
> Having it emit 0xcc for the bytes in front of the symbol might be
> interesting. It would mean a few kernel changes, but nothing too hard.
>
> That is, -fpatchable-function-entry=N,M gets us N-M bytes in at the
> start of the symbol and M bytes in front of it. The N-M bytes at the
> start of the function *are* executed and should obviously not become
> 0xcc (GCC keeps them 0x90 while LLVM makes them large NOPs).

Uhum, all makes sense. I drafted something here:

https://github.com/lvwr/llvm-project/commits/joao/int3

Let me know if this works for you or if there is something that should 
be tweaked, like adding a specific flag and such. This currently emits 
0xcc instead of 0x90 for the nops before the function entry symbol for 
kernel code on x86-64. It seems to be working (see generated snippet 
below), but let me know otherwise:

Generated with -fpatchable-function-entry=10,5

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <save_processor_state-0x5>:
   0:   cc                      int3
   1:   cc                      int3
   2:   cc                      int3
   3:   cc                      int3
   4:   cc                      int3

0000000000000005 <save_processor_state>:
   5:   0f 1f 44 00 08          nopl   0x8(%rax,%rax,1)
   a:   41 57                   push   %r15
   c:   41 56                   push   %r14
...