When retpolines are employed, compilers typically emit calls to retpoline thunks. Objtool recognises these calls and marks them as dynamic calls.
Provide infrastructure for architectures to rewrite/augment what the compiler wrote for us. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> --- tools/objtool/check.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -775,6 +775,14 @@ static int add_ignore_alternatives(struc return 0; } + +__weak int arch_rewrite_retpoline(struct objtool_file *file, + struct instruction *insn, + struct reloc *reloc) +{ + return 0; +} + /* * Find the destination instructions for all jumps. */ @@ -808,6 +816,9 @@ static int add_jump_destinations(struct insn->type = INSN_JUMP_DYNAMIC_CONDITIONAL; insn->retpoline_safe = true; + + arch_rewrite_retpoline(file, insn, reloc); + continue; } else if (insn->func) { /* internal or external sibling call (with reloc) */ @@ -959,6 +970,8 @@ static int add_call_destinations(struct insn->type = INSN_CALL_DYNAMIC; insn->retpoline_safe = true; + arch_rewrite_retpoline(file, insn, reloc); + remove_insn_ops(insn); continue; @@ -1119,6 +1132,8 @@ static int handle_group_alt(struct objto dest_off = arch_jump_destination(insn); if (dest_off == special_alt->new_off + special_alt->new_len) insn->jump_dest = next_insn_same_sec(file, last_orig_insn); + else + insn->jump_dest = find_insn(file, insn->sec, dest_off); if (!insn->jump_dest) { WARN_FUNC("can't find alternative jump destination", @@ -1704,11 +1719,15 @@ static int decode_sections(struct objtoo if (ret) return ret; - ret = add_jump_destinations(file); + /* + * Must be before add_{jump,call}_destination; for they can add + * magic alternatives we can't actually parse. + */ + ret = add_special_section_alts(file); if (ret) return ret; - ret = add_special_section_alts(file); + ret = add_jump_destinations(file); if (ret) return ret; --- a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h +++ b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h @@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ unsigned long arch_jump_destination(stru unsigned long arch_dest_reloc_offset(int addend); const char *arch_nop_insn(int len); +int arch_rewrite_retpoline(struct objtool_file *file, + struct instruction *insn, + struct reloc *reloc); int arch_decode_hint_reg(struct instruction *insn, u8 sp_reg);