[PATCH v2 9/9] arm64: ftrace: Allow CALL_OPS on kCFI kernels built with Rust

From: Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)

Date: Thu Sep 24 2026 - 18:42:05 EST


Pass -Zpatchable-function-entry=M,M,.discard.patchable_function_entries
to rustc when CFI and CALL_OPS are both enabled, so Rust functions get
the same prefix NOPs as C functions. The section argument needs
Rust 1.98 [1]. Probe for it, and let ARM64_CFI_PERMITS_CALL_OPS
accept RUST=y when the probe passes.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/157445

Suggested-by: Ben Cressey <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ben Cressey <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Florent Revest (Anthropic) <florent.revest@xxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jose Fernandez (Anthropic) <jose.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 7 ++++++-
arch/arm64/Makefile | 3 +++
rust/Makefile | 7 ++++++-
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index afa566e0fa86c..cad2bdf3456ff 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -282,11 +282,16 @@ config CC_HAS_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY_SECTION
# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/131230
def_bool $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=1$(comma)1$(comma).discard.patchable_function_entries)

+config RUSTC_HAS_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY_SECTION
+ # The section argument needs Rust 1.98.0 or later:
+ # https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/157445
+ def_bool $(rustc-option,-Zpatchable-function-entry=1$(comma)1$(comma).discard.patchable_function_entries)
+
config ARM64_CFI_PERMITS_CALL_OPS
def_bool y
depends on CFI
depends on CC_HAS_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY_SECTION
- depends on !RUST
+ depends on !RUST || RUSTC_HAS_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY_SECTION

config ARM64_FUNCTION_PREFIX_NOPS
int
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index 653c1ed6ef38f..b23430e2b8567 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS),y)
-DCC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_PREFIX=$(prefix_nops)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CFI_PREFIX_CFLAGS)
export CFI_PREFIX_CFLAGS
+ # Rust functions are not patched by ftrace, but they are called indirectly
+ # from C and make indirect calls themselves, so they need the same prefix.
+ KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += -Zpatchable-function-entry=$(prefix_nops),$(prefix_nops),.discard.patchable_function_entries
endif
else ifeq ($(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS),y)
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DCC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
diff --git a/rust/Makefile b/rust/Makefile
index da1a7409d9845..b402ab768f729 100644
--- a/rust/Makefile
+++ b/rust/Makefile
@@ -511,7 +511,12 @@ endif
# prototypes for functions like `memcpy` -- if this flag is not passed,
# `bindgen`-generated prototypes use `c_ulong` or `c_uint` depending on
# architecture instead of generating `usize`.
-bindgen_c_flags_final = $(bindgen_c_flags_lto) -fno-builtin -D__BINDGEN__
+#
+# Do not pass -fpatchable-function-entry to bindgen: its libclang may not
+# support the section argument (Clang >= 21), and removing the flag does not
+# change the ABI.
+bindgen_c_flags_final = $(filter-out -fpatchable-function-entry=%, \
+ $(bindgen_c_flags_lto)) -fno-builtin -D__BINDGEN__

# `--rust-target` points to our minimum supported Rust version.
quiet_cmd_bindgen = BINDGEN $@

--
2.52.0