[PATCH v2 1/2] x86/retpoline,kprobes: Fix position of thunk sections with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG

From: Petr Pavlu
Date: Tue Jul 11 2023 - 05:25:19 EST


Linker script arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S matches the thunk sections
".text.__x86.*" from arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S as follows:

.text {
[...]
TEXT_TEXT
[...]
__indirect_thunk_start = .;
*(.text.__x86.*)
__indirect_thunk_end = .;
[...]
}

Macro TEXT_TEXT references TEXT_MAIN which normally expands to only
".text". However, with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, TEXT_MAIN becomes
".text .text.[0-9a-zA-Z_]*" which wrongly matches also the thunk
sections. The output layout is then different than expected. For
instance, the currently defined range [__indirect_thunk_start,
__indirect_thunk_end] becomes empty.

Prevent the problem by using ".." as the first separator, for example,
".text..__x86.indirect_thunk". This pattern is utilized by other
explicit section names which start with one of the standard prefixes,
such as ".text" or ".data", and that need to be individually selected in
the linker script.

Fixes: dc5723b02e52 ("kbuild: add support for Clang LTO")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 03c885d3640f..a4cd04c458df 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ SECTIONS
SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT
#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
__indirect_thunk_start = .;
- *(.text.__x86.*)
+ *(.text..__x86.*)
__indirect_thunk_end = .;
#endif
STATIC_CALL_TEXT
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S b/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S
index 3fd066d42ec0..3bea96341d00 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
#include <asm/percpu.h>
#include <asm/frame.h>

- .section .text.__x86.indirect_thunk
+ .section .text..__x86.indirect_thunk


.macro POLINE reg
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ SYM_CODE_END(__x86_indirect_jump_thunk_array)
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_RETHUNK

- .section .text.__x86.return_thunk
+ .section .text..__x86.return_thunk

/*
* Safety details here pertain to the AMD Zen{1,2} microarchitecture:
--
2.35.3