Re: [PATCH] x86: Enable IBT in Rust if enabled in C

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 07:06:32AM -0700, Matthew Maurer wrote:

> > > +KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += -Zcf-protection=branch -Zno-jump-tables
> >
> > One question, -Zcf-protection=branch, will that ever emit NOTRACK
> > prefix? The kernel very explicitly does not support (enable) NOTRACK.

> rustc does this via LLVM, so its code generation works very similarly to clang.
> It does not create its own explicit NOTRACKs, but LLVM will by default
> with just -Zcf-protection-branch.
> I've linked a godbolt showing that at least for the basic case, your
> no-jump-tables approach from clang ports over.
> https://godbolt.org/z/bc4n6sq5q
> Whether rust generates NOTRACK should end up being roughly equivalent
> to whether clang generates it, and if LLVM gains a code generation
> flag for NOTRACK being disallowed some day, we can pass that through
> as well.

IIRC C++ will also emit NOTRACK for things like catch/throw and other
stack/scope unwinds. Obviously C doesn't have that, but does Rust? (as
might be obvious, I *really* don't know the language).

ISTR HJL had a GCC patch to force-disable NOTRACK, but I've no idea what
happened to that.