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Author SHA1 Message Date
Julien Thierry edea9e6bcb objtool: Decode unwind hint register depending on architecture
The set of registers that can be included in an unwind hint and their
encoding will depend on the architecture. Have arch specific code to
decode that register.

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2020-09-10 10:43:13 -05:00
Julien Thierry 66734e3246 objtool: Define 'struct orc_entry' only when needed
Implementation of ORC requires some definitions that are currently
provided by the target architecture headers. Do not depend on these
definitions when the orc subcommand is not implemented.

This avoid requiring arches with no orc implementation to provide dummy
orc definitions.

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2020-09-01 17:19:12 -05:00
Peter Zijlstra d832c0051f Merge branch 'objtool/urgent' into objtool/core
Conflicts:
	tools/objtool/elf.c
	tools/objtool/elf.h
	tools/objtool/orc_gen.c
	tools/objtool/check.c

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2020-06-18 17:55:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 0f1441b44e objtool: Fix noinstr vs KCOV
Since many compilers cannot disable KCOV with a function attribute,
help it to NOP out any __sanitizer_cov_*() calls injected in noinstr
code.

This turns:

12:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  17 <lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x17>
		13: R_X86_64_PLT32      __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc-0x4

into:

12:   0f 1f 44 00 00          nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
		13: R_X86_64_NONE      __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc-0x4

Just like recordmcount does.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
2020-06-18 17:36:33 +02:00
Matt Helsley f197422263 objtool: Rename rela to reloc
Before supporting additional relocation types rename the relevant
types and functions from "rela" to "reloc". This work be done with
the following regex:

  sed -e 's/struct rela/struct reloc/g' \
      -e 's/\([_\*]\)rela\(s\{0,1\}\)/\1reloc\2/g' \
      -e 's/tmprela\(s\{0,1\}\)/tmpreloc\1/g' \
      -e 's/relasec/relocsec/g' \
      -e 's/rela_list/reloc_list/g' \
      -e 's/rela_hash/reloc_hash/g' \
      -e 's/add_rela/add_reloc/g' \
      -e 's/rela->/reloc->/g' \
      -e '/rela[,\.]/{ s/\([^\.>]\)rela\([\.,]\)/\1reloc\2/g ; }' \
      -e 's/rela =/reloc =/g' \
      -e 's/relas =/relocs =/g' \
      -e 's/relas\[/relocs[/g' \
      -e 's/relaname =/relocname =/g' \
      -e 's/= rela\;/= reloc\;/g' \
      -e 's/= relas\;/= relocs\;/g' \
      -e 's/= relaname\;/= relocname\;/g' \
      -e 's/, rela)/, reloc)/g' \
      -e 's/\([ @]\)rela\([ "]\)/\1reloc\2/g' \
      -e 's/ rela$/ reloc/g' \
      -e 's/, relaname/, relocname/g' \
      -e 's/sec->rela/sec->reloc/g' \
      -e 's/(\(!\{0,1\}\)rela/(\1reloc/g' \
      -i \
      arch.h \
      arch/x86/decode.c  \
      check.c \
      check.h \
      elf.c \
      elf.h \
      orc_gen.c \
      special.c

Notable exceptions which complicate the regex include gelf_*
library calls and standard/expected section names which still use
"rela" because they encode the type of relocation expected. Also, keep
"rela" in the struct because it encodes a specific type of relocation
we currently expect.

It will eventually turn into a member of an anonymous union when a
susequent patch adds implicit addend, or "rel", relocation support.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2020-06-01 09:40:58 -05:00
Matt Helsley 0decf1f8de objtool: Enable compilation of objtool for all architectures
Objtool currently only compiles for x86 architectures. This is
fine as it presently does not support tooling for other
architectures. However, we would like to be able to convert other
kernel tools to run as objtool sub commands because they too
process ELF object files. This will allow us to convert tools
such as recordmcount to use objtool's ELF code.

Since much of recordmcount's ELF code is copy-paste code to/from
a variety of other kernel tools (look at modpost for example) this
means that if we can convert recordmcount we can convert more.

We define weak definitions for subcommand entry functions and other weak
definitions for shared functions critical to building existing
subcommands. These return 127 when the command is missing which signify
tools that do not exist on all architectures.  In this case the "check"
and "orc" tools do not exist on all architectures so we only add them
for x86. Future changes adding support for "check", to arm64 for
example, can then modify the SUBCMD_CHECK variable when building for
arm64.

Objtool is not currently wired in to KConfig to be built for other
architectures because it's not needed for those architectures and
there are no commands it supports other than those for x86. As more
command support is enabled on various architectures the necessary
KConfig changes can be made (e.g. adding "STACK_VALIDATION") to
trigger building objtool.

[ jpoimboe: remove aliases, add __weak macro, add error messages ]

Cc: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2020-05-20 09:17:28 -05:00
Miroslav Benes b490f45362 objtool: Move the IRET hack into the arch decoder
Quoting Julien:

  "And the other suggestion is my other email was that you don't even
  need to add INSN_EXCEPTION_RETURN. You can keep IRET as
  INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH by default and x86 decoder lookups the symbol
  conaining an iret. If it's a function symbol, it can just set the type
  to INSN_OTHER so that it caries on to the next instruction after
  having handled the stack_op."

Suggested-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428191659.913283807@infradead.org
2020-04-30 20:14:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b09fb65e86 objtool: Remove INSN_STACK
With the unconditional use of handle_insn_ops(), INSN_STACK has lost
its purpose. Remove it.

Suggested-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428191659.854203028@infradead.org
2020-04-30 20:14:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0c98be8118 objtool: Constify arch_decode_instruction()
Mostly straightforward constification, except that WARN_FUNC()
needs a writable pointer while we have read-only pointers,
so deflect this to WARN().

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200422103205.61900-4-mingo@kernel.org
2020-04-23 08:34:18 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a3608f5954 objtool: Rename struct cfi_state
There's going to be a new struct cfi_state, rename this one to make
place.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416115118.986441913@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-04-22 10:53:50 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b746046238 objtool: Better handle IRET
Teach objtool a little more about IRET so that we can avoid using the
SAVE/RESTORE annotation. In particular, make the weird corner case in
insn->restore go away.

The purpose of that corner case is to deal with the fact that
UNWIND_HINT_RESTORE lands on the instruction after IRET, but that
instruction can end up being outside the basic block, consider:

	if (cond)
		sync_core()
	foo();

Then the hint will land on foo(), and we'll encounter the restore
hint without ever having seen the save hint.

By teaching objtool about the arch specific exception frame size, and
assuming that any IRET in an STT_FUNC symbol is an exception frame
sized POP, we can remove the use of save/restore hints for this code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416115118.631224674@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-04-22 10:53:50 +02:00
Julien Thierry 65ea47dcf4 objtool: Support multiple stack_op per instruction
Instruction sets can include more or less complex operations which might
not fit the currently defined set of stack_ops.

Combining more than one stack_op provides more flexibility to describe
the behaviour of an instruction. This also reduces the need to define
new stack_ops specific to a single instruction set.

Allow instruction decoders to generate multiple stack_op per
instruction.

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327152847.15294-11-jthierry@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-04-22 10:53:50 +02:00
Raphael Gault bfb08f2203 objtool: Add abstraction for destination offsets
The jump and call destination relocation offsets are x86-specific.
Abstract them by calling arch-specific implementations.

[ jthierry: Remove superfluous comment; replace other addend offsets
      	    with arch_dest_rela_offset() ]

Signed-off-by: Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-04-22 10:53:49 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf b68b990706 objtool: Support conditional retpolines
A Clang-built kernel is showing the following warning:

  arch/x86/kernel/platform-quirks.o: warning: objtool: x86_early_init_platform_quirks()+0x84: unreachable instruction

That corresponds to this code:

  7e:   0f 85 00 00 00 00       jne    84 <x86_early_init_platform_quirks+0x84>
                        80: R_X86_64_PC32       __x86_indirect_thunk_r11-0x4
  84:   c3                      retq

This is a conditional retpoline sibling call, which is now possible
thanks to retpolines.  Objtool hasn't seen that before.  It's
incorrectly interpreting the conditional jump as an unconditional
dynamic jump.

Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/30d4c758b267ef487fb97e6ecb2f148ad007b554.1563413318.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2019-07-18 21:01:10 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf 9fe7b7642f objtool: Convert insn type to enum
This makes it easier to add new instruction types.  Also it's hopefully
more robust since the compiler should warn about out-of-range enums.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0740e96af0d40e54cfd6a07bf09db0fbd10793cd.1563413318.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2019-07-18 21:01:10 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 1ccea77e2a treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13
Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based]
  [from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the
  gnu general public license along with this program if not see http
  www gnu org licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy <opensource@jilayne.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-21 11:28:45 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 2f0f9e9ad7 objtool: Add Direction Flag validation
Having DF escape is BAD(tm).

Linus; you suggested this one, but since DF really is only used from
ASM and the failure case is fairly obvious, do we really need this?

OTOH the patch is fairly small and simple, so let's just do this
to demonstrate objtool's superior awesomeness.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-04-03 11:02:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ea24213d80 objtool: Add UACCESS validation
It is important that UACCESS regions are as small as possible;
furthermore the UACCESS state is not scheduled, so doing anything that
might directly call into the scheduler will cause random code to be
ran with UACCESS enabled.

Teach objtool too track UACCESS state and warn about any CALL made
while UACCESS is enabled. This very much includes the __fentry__()
and __preempt_schedule() calls.

Note that exceptions _do_ save/restore the UACCESS state, and therefore
they can drive preemption. This also means that all exception handlers
must have an otherwise redundant UACCESS disable instruction;
therefore ignore this warning for !STT_FUNC code (exception handlers
are not normal functions).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-04-03 11:02:24 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf 649ea4d5a6 objtool: Assume unannotated UD2 instructions are dead ends
Arnd reported some false positive warnings with GCC 7:

  drivers/hid/wacom_wac.o: warning: objtool: wacom_bpt3_touch()+0x2a5: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=6+16
  drivers/iio/adc/vf610_adc.o: warning: objtool: vf610_adc_calculate_rates() falls through to next function vf610_adc_sample_set()
  drivers/pwm/pwm-hibvt.o: warning: objtool: hibvt_pwm_get_state() falls through to next function hibvt_pwm_remove()
  drivers/pwm/pwm-mediatek.o: warning: objtool: mtk_pwm_config() falls through to next function mtk_pwm_enable()
  drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.o: warning: objtool: .text: unexpected end of section
  drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835aux.o: warning: objtool: .text: unexpected end of section
  drivers/watchdog/digicolor_wdt.o: warning: objtool: dc_wdt_get_timeleft() falls through to next function dc_wdt_restart()

When GCC 7 detects a potential divide-by-zero condition, it sometimes
inserts a UD2 instruction for the case where the divisor is zero,
instead of letting the hardware trap on the divide instruction.

Objtool doesn't consider UD2 to be fatal unless it's annotated with
unreachable().  So it considers the GCC-generated UD2 to be non-fatal,
and it tries to follow the control flow past the UD2 and gets
confused.

Previously, objtool *did* assume UD2 was always a dead end.  That
changed with the following commit:

  d1091c7fa3 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends")

The motivation behind that change was that Peter was planning on using
UD2 for __WARN(), which is *not* a dead end.  However, it turns out
that some emulators rely on UD2 being fatal, so he ended up using
'ud0' instead:

  9a93848fe7 ("x86/debug: Implement __WARN() using UD0")

For GCC 4.5+, it should be safe to go back to the previous assumption
that UD2 is fatal, even when it's not annotated with unreachable().

But for pre-4.5 versions of GCC, the unreachable() macro isn't
supported, so such cases of UD2 need to be explicitly annotated as
reachable.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: d1091c7fa3 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e57fa9dfede25f79487da8126ee9cdf7b856db65.1501188854.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-28 08:33:32 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf baa41469a7 objtool: Implement stack validation 2.0
This is a major rewrite of objtool.  Instead of only tracking frame
pointer changes, it now tracks all stack-related operations, including
all register saves/restores.

In addition to making stack validation more robust, this also paves the
way for undwarf generation.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/678bd94c0566c6129bcc376cddb259c4c5633004.1498659915.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-30 10:19:19 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf d1091c7fa3 objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends
The BUG() macro's use of __builtin_unreachable() via the unreachable()
macro tells gcc that the instruction is a dead end, and that it's safe
to assume the current code path will not execute past the previous
instruction.

On x86, the BUG() macro is implemented with the 'ud2' instruction.  When
objtool's branch analysis sees that instruction, it knows the current
code path has come to a dead end.

Peter Zijlstra has been working on a patch to change the WARN macros to
use 'ud2'.  That patch will break objtool's assumption that 'ud2' is
always a dead end.

Generally it's best for objtool to avoid making those kinds of
assumptions anyway.  The more ignorant it is of kernel code internals,
the better.

So create a more generic way for objtool to detect dead ends by adding
an annotation to the unreachable() macro.  The annotation stores a
pointer to the end of the unreachable code path in an '__unreachable'
section.  Objtool can read that section to find the dead ends.

Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/41a6d33971462ebd944a1c60ad4bf5be86c17b77.1487712920.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-24 09:10:52 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 442f04c34a objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
This adds a host tool named objtool which has a "check" subcommand which
analyzes .o files to ensure the validity of stack metadata.  It enforces
a set of rules on asm code and C inline assembly code so that stack
traces can be reliable.

For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths and
validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.

It also follows code paths involving kernel special sections, like
.altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
instructions).  Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements, for
which gcc sometimes uses jump tables.

Here are some of the benefits of validating stack metadata:

a) More reliable stack traces for frame pointer enabled kernels

   Frame pointers are used for debugging purposes.  They allow runtime
   code and debug tools to be able to walk the stack to determine the
   chain of function call sites that led to the currently executing
   code.

   For some architectures, frame pointers are enabled by
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.  For some other architectures they may be
   required by the ABI (sometimes referred to as "backchain pointers").

   For C code, gcc automatically generates instructions for setting up
   frame pointers when the -fno-omit-frame-pointer option is used.

   But for asm code, the frame setup instructions have to be written by
   hand, which most people don't do.  So the end result is that
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is honored for C code but not for most asm code.

   For stack traces based on frame pointers to be reliable, all
   functions which call other functions must first create a stack frame
   and update the frame pointer.  If a first function doesn't properly
   create a stack frame before calling a second function, the *caller*
   of the first function will be skipped on the stack trace.

   For example, consider the following example backtrace with frame
   pointers enabled:

     [<ffffffff81812584>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x63
     [<ffffffff812d6dc2>] cmdline_proc_show+0x12/0x30
     [<ffffffff8127f568>] seq_read+0x108/0x3e0
     [<ffffffff812cce62>] proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
     [<ffffffff81256197>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x100
     [<ffffffff81256b16>] vfs_read+0x86/0x130
     [<ffffffff81257898>] SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
     [<ffffffff8181c1f2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76

   It correctly shows that the caller of cmdline_proc_show() is
   seq_read().

   If we remove the frame pointer logic from cmdline_proc_show() by
   replacing the frame pointer related instructions with nops, here's
   what it looks like instead:

     [<ffffffff81812584>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x63
     [<ffffffff812d6dc2>] cmdline_proc_show+0x12/0x30
     [<ffffffff812cce62>] proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
     [<ffffffff81256197>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x100
     [<ffffffff81256b16>] vfs_read+0x86/0x130
     [<ffffffff81257898>] SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
     [<ffffffff8181c1f2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76

   Notice that cmdline_proc_show()'s caller, seq_read(), has been
   skipped.  Instead the stack trace seems to show that
   cmdline_proc_show() was called by proc_reg_read().

   The benefit of "objtool check" here is that because it ensures that
   *all* functions honor CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, no functions will ever[*]
   be skipped on a stack trace.

   [*] unless an interrupt or exception has occurred at the very
       beginning of a function before the stack frame has been created,
       or at the very end of the function after the stack frame has been
       destroyed.  This is an inherent limitation of frame pointers.

b) 100% reliable stack traces for DWARF enabled kernels

   This is not yet implemented.  For more details about what is planned,
   see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.

c) Higher live patching compatibility rate

   This is not yet implemented.  For more details about what is planned,
   see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.

To achieve the validation, "objtool check" enforces the following rules:

1. Each callable function must be annotated as such with the ELF
   function type.  In asm code, this is typically done using the
   ENTRY/ENDPROC macros.  If objtool finds a return instruction
   outside of a function, it flags an error since that usually indicates
   callable code which should be annotated accordingly.

   This rule is needed so that objtool can properly identify each
   callable function in order to analyze its stack metadata.

2. Conversely, each section of code which is *not* callable should *not*
   be annotated as an ELF function.  The ENDPROC macro shouldn't be used
   in this case.

   This rule is needed so that objtool can ignore non-callable code.
   Such code doesn't have to follow any of the other rules.

3. Each callable function which calls another function must have the
   correct frame pointer logic, if required by CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER or
   the architecture's back chain rules.  This can by done in asm code
   with the FRAME_BEGIN/FRAME_END macros.

   This rule ensures that frame pointer based stack traces will work as
   designed.  If function A doesn't create a stack frame before calling
   function B, the _caller_ of function A will be skipped on the stack
   trace.

4. Dynamic jumps and jumps to undefined symbols are only allowed if:

   a) the jump is part of a switch statement; or

   b) the jump matches sibling call semantics and the frame pointer has
      the same value it had on function entry.

   This rule is needed so that objtool can reliably analyze all of a
   function's code paths.  If a function jumps to code in another file,
   and it's not a sibling call, objtool has no way to follow the jump
   because it only analyzes a single file at a time.

5. A callable function may not execute kernel entry/exit instructions.
   The only code which needs such instructions is kernel entry code,
   which shouldn't be be in callable functions anyway.

   This rule is just a sanity check to ensure that callable functions
   return normally.

It currently only supports x86_64.  I tried to make the code generic so
that support for other architectures can hopefully be plugged in
relatively easily.

On my Lenovo laptop with a i7-4810MQ 4-core/8-thread CPU, building the
kernel with objtool checking every .o file adds about three seconds of
total build time.  It hasn't been optimized for performance yet, so
there are probably some opportunities for better build performance.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f3efb173de43bd067b060de73f856567c0fa1174.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 08:35:12 +01:00