linux/arch
Mark Brown c0a454b904 arm64/bti: Disable in kernel BTI when cross section thunks are broken
GCC does not insert a `bti c` instruction at the beginning of a function
when it believes that all callers reach the function through a direct
branch[1]. Unfortunately the logic it uses to determine this is not
sufficiently robust, for example not taking account of functions being
placed in different sections which may be loaded separately, so we may
still see thunks being generated to these functions. If that happens,
the first instruction in the callee function will result in a Branch
Target Exception due to the missing landing pad.

While this has currently only been observed in the case of modules
having their main code loaded sufficiently far from their init section
to require thunks it could potentially happen for other cases so the
safest thing is to disable BTI for the kernel when building with an
affected toolchain.

[1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106671

Reported-by: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
[Bits of the commit message are lifted from his report & workaround]
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220905142255.591990-1-broonie@kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2022-09-06 08:56:46 +01:00
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alpha Bitmap patches for v6.0-rc1 2022-08-07 17:52:35 -07:00
arc Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
arm Merge 'irq/loongarch', 'pci/ctrl/loongson' and 'pci/header-cleanup-immutable' 2022-08-11 21:06:14 +08:00
arm64 arm64/bti: Disable in kernel BTI when cross section thunks are broken 2022-09-06 08:56:46 +01:00
csky Merge 'irq/loongarch', 'pci/ctrl/loongson' and 'pci/header-cleanup-immutable' 2022-08-11 21:06:14 +08:00
hexagon Bitmap patches for v6.0-rc1 2022-08-07 17:52:35 -07:00
ia64 Bitmap patches for v6.0-rc1 2022-08-07 17:52:35 -07:00
loongarch LoongArch changes for v5.20 2022-08-12 09:44:23 -07:00
m68k Fixes include: 2022-08-09 09:39:25 -07:00
microblaze - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
mips Merge 'irq/loongarch', 'pci/ctrl/loongson' and 'pci/header-cleanup-immutable' 2022-08-11 21:06:14 +08:00
nios2 nios2: drop definition of PGD_ORDER 2022-07-17 17:14:43 -07:00
openrisc Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
parisc Merge 'irq/loongarch', 'pci/ctrl/loongson' and 'pci/header-cleanup-immutable' 2022-08-11 21:06:14 +08:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 6.0 #2 2022-08-14 08:48:13 -07:00
riscv RISC-V Patches for the 5.20 Merge Window, Part 2 2022-08-12 18:39:43 -07:00
s390 Merge 'irq/loongarch', 'pci/ctrl/loongson' and 'pci/header-cleanup-immutable' 2022-08-11 21:06:14 +08:00
sh Merge 'irq/loongarch', 'pci/ctrl/loongson' and 'pci/header-cleanup-immutable' 2022-08-11 21:06:14 +08:00
sparc Merge 'irq/loongarch', 'pci/ctrl/loongson' and 'pci/header-cleanup-immutable' 2022-08-11 21:06:14 +08:00
um virtio: fatures, fixes 2022-08-12 09:50:34 -07:00
x86 xen: branch for v6.0-rc1b 2022-08-14 09:28:54 -07:00
xtensa Merge 'irq/loongarch', 'pci/ctrl/loongson' and 'pci/header-cleanup-immutable' 2022-08-11 21:06:14 +08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig asm-generic: updates for 6.0 2022-08-05 10:07:23 -07:00