[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 5/5] x86/retpoline: Make sure there are no unconverted return thunks due to KCSAN

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Nov 06 2023 - 18:06:49 EST


From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 2d7ce49f58dc95495b3e22e45d2be7de909b2c63 ]

Enabling CONFIG_KCSAN leads to unconverted, default return thunks to
remain after patching.

As David Kaplan describes in his debugging of the issue, it is caused by
a couple of KCSAN-generated constructors which aren't processed by
objtool:

"When KCSAN is enabled, GCC generates lots of constructor functions
named _sub_I_00099_0 which call __tsan_init and then return. The
returns in these are generally annotated normally by objtool and fixed
up at runtime. But objtool runs on vmlinux.o and vmlinux.o does not
include a couple of object files that are in vmlinux, like
init/version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o, both of which contain
_sub_I_00099_0 functions. As a result, the returns in these functions
are not annotated, and the panic occurs when we call one of them in
do_ctors and it uses the default return thunk.

This difference can be seen by counting the number of these functions in the object files:
$ objdump -d vmlinux.o|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:"
2601
$ objdump -d vmlinux|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:"
2603

If these functions are only run during kernel boot, there is no
speculation concern."

Fix it by disabling KCSAN on version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o
so the extra functions don't get generated. KASAN and GCOV are already
disabled for those files.

[ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231016214810.GA3942238@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017165946.v4i2d4exyqwqq3bx@treble
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
init/Makefile | 1 +
scripts/Makefile.vmlinux | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/init/Makefile b/init/Makefile
index ec557ada3c12e..cbac576c57d63 100644
--- a/init/Makefile
+++ b/init/Makefile
@@ -60,4 +60,5 @@ include/generated/utsversion.h: FORCE
$(obj)/version-timestamp.o: include/generated/utsversion.h
CFLAGS_version-timestamp.o := -include include/generated/utsversion.h
KASAN_SANITIZE_version-timestamp.o := n
+KCSAN_SANITIZE_version-timestamp.o := n
GCOV_PROFILE_version-timestamp.o := n
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
index 3cd6ca15f390d..c9f3e03124d7f 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ quiet_cmd_cc_o_c = CC $@

ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
KASAN_SANITIZE_.vmlinux.export.o := n
+KCSAN_SANITIZE_.vmlinux.export.o := n
GCOV_PROFILE_.vmlinux.export.o := n
targets += .vmlinux.export.o
vmlinux: .vmlinux.export.o
--
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