[PATCH] x86/cfi: Use symmetric SYM_START and SYM_END in __CFI_TYPE()

From: Jens Remus

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 12:00:57 EST


Commit ccace936eec7 ("x86: Add types to indirectly called assembly
functions") introduced a x86-specific implementation of __CFI_TYPE()
using an asymmetric combination of SYM_START() and SYM_FUNC_END() to
add a symbol to the KCFI type identifier that precedes a function.

This asymmetric combination is an issue if SYM_FUNC_END() ever gets
extended in a way that requires it to be used symmetrically with
SYM_FUNC_START*(). For instance to emit DWARF CFI directives that
denote the start/end of a function. [1]

Use SYM_END() with SYM_T_FUNC instead. No functional change, as the
generic implementation of SYM_FUNC_END(name) expands into
SYM_END(name, SYM_T_FUNC).

Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260522110427.2816637-1-jremus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?part=3 [1]
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Notes (jremus):
This patch applies on top of linus' tree (9716c086c8e8):

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

I verified as follows that in x86-64 builds of vmlinux using Clang with
kCFI enabled without and with my patch applied vmlinux.o only differs in
relocations targeting .rodata.str* and a few symbols in .rodata shifted
(both likely due to differences in string merging):

$ objdump -d vmlinux.o > vmlinux.o.{old|new}.objdump
$ readelf -Wa vmlinux.o > vmlinux.o.{old|new}.readelf
$ diff -u vmlinux.o.old.objdump vmlinux.o.new.objdump
[no differences]
$ diff -u0 vmlinux.o.old.readelf vmlinux.o.new.readelf | \
grep --invert-match -E "\.rodata\.str|@@"
[see above]

arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
index a7294656ad90..c9769a7b6e66 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
.byte 0xb8 ASM_NL \
.long __kcfi_typeid_##name ASM_NL \
CFI_POST_PADDING \
- SYM_FUNC_END(__cfi_##name)
+ SYM_END(__cfi_##name, SYM_T_FUNC)

/* UML needs to be able to override memcpy() and friends for KASAN. */
#ifdef CONFIG_UML
--
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