Re: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Make OMAP4 finish_suspend callback CFI-safe

From: Nathan Chancellor

Date: Tue May 12 2026 - 10:03:37 EST


On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:02:07AM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2026 16:34:42 +0900
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 12:23:41AM -0400, Mithil Bavishi wrote:
> > > With CONFIG_CFI enabled, OMAP4 can trap in omap4_enter_lowpower()
> > > because omap_pm_ops.finish_suspend points directly to the assembly
> > > routine omap4_finish_suspend, which lacks the expected KCFI type
> > > metadata.
> >
> > It sounds like omap4_finish_suspend() should be defined with
> > SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START then? Is that the case for all of the other
> > functions that are added to omap_pm_ops?
> >
> omap_cpu_resume: the address is written to some cpu register and
> on that way casted to u32. So therefore does not trigger CFI.
> Same for secondary_startup which is also assembler code.
> scu_prepare is C.
>
> DO you have a pointer to any documentation:
> :~/linux$ grep -R SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START Documentation/

I don't think we have any formal documentation for SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START
(it should probably be documented via kernel-doc?) but you can read the
commit message of the change that added it for more information:

e84e008e7b02 ("cfi: Add type helper macros")

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Cheers,
Nathan