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<title>objtool: Handle Clang RSP musical chairs</title>
<updated>2026-04-02T11:23:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-03-06T17:35:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7fdaa640c810cb42090a182c33f905bcc47a616a ]

For no apparent reason (possibly related to CONFIG_KMSAN), Clang can
randomly pass the value of RSP to other registers and then back again to
RSP.  Handle that accordingly.

Fixes the following warnings:

  drivers/input/misc/uinput.o: warning: objtool: uinput_str_to_user+0x165: undefined stack state
  drivers/input/misc/uinput.o: warning: objtool: uinput_str_to_user+0x165: unknown CFA base reg -1

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/90956545-2066-46e3-b547-10c884582eb0@app.fastmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/240e6a172cc73292499334a3724d02ccb3247fc7.1772818491.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7fdaa640c810cb42090a182c33f905bcc47a616a ]

For no apparent reason (possibly related to CONFIG_KMSAN), Clang can
randomly pass the value of RSP to other registers and then back again to
RSP.  Handle that accordingly.

Fixes the following warnings:

  drivers/input/misc/uinput.o: warning: objtool: uinput_str_to_user+0x165: undefined stack state
  drivers/input/misc/uinput.o: warning: objtool: uinput_str_to_user+0x165: unknown CFA base reg -1

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/90956545-2066-46e3-b547-10c884582eb0@app.fastmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/240e6a172cc73292499334a3724d02ccb3247fc7.1772818491.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_apic_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T20:40:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T20:40:35+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 SEV and apic updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add functionality to provide runtime firmware updates for the non-x86
   parts of an AMD platform like the security processor (ASP) firmware,
   modules etc, for example. The intent being that these updates are
   interim, live fixups before a proper BIOS update can be attempted

 - Add guest support for AMD's Secure AVIC feature which gives encrypted
   guests the needed protection against a malicious hypervisor
   generating unexpected interrupts and injecting them into such guest,
   thus interfering with its operation in an unexpected and negative
   manner.

   The advantage of this scheme is that the guest determines which
   interrupts and when to accept them vs leaving that to the benevolence
   (or not) of the hypervisor

 - Strictly separate the startup code from the rest of the kernel where
   former is executed from the initial 1:1 mapping of memory.

   The problem was that the toolchain-generated version of the code was
   being executed from a different mapping of memory than what was
   "assumed" during code generation, needing an ever-growing pile of
   fixups for absolute memory references which are invalid in the early,
   1:1 memory mapping during boot.

   The major advantage of this is that there's no need to check the 1:1
   mapping portion of the code for absolute relocations anymore and get
   rid of the RIP_REL_REF() macro sprinkling all over the place.

   For more info, see Ard's very detailed writeup on this [1]

 - The usual cleanups and fixes

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMj1kXEzKEuePEiHB%2BHxvfQbFz0sTiHdn4B%2B%2BzVBJ2mhkPkQ4Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'x86_apic_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  x86/boot: Drop erroneous __init annotation from early_set_pages_state()
  crypto: ccp - Add AMD Seamless Firmware Servicing (SFS) driver
  crypto: ccp - Add new HV-Fixed page allocation/free API
  x86/sev: Add new dump_rmp parameter to snp_leak_pages() API
  x86/startup/sev: Document the CPUID flow in the boot #VC handler
  objtool: Ignore __pi___cfi_ prefixed symbols
  x86/sev: Zap snp_abort()
  x86/apic/savic: Do not use snp_abort()
  x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section
  x86/boot: Move startup code out of __head section
  efistub/x86: Remap inittext read-execute when needed
  x86/boot: Create a confined code area for startup code
  x86/kbuild: Incorporate boot/startup/ via Kbuild makefile
  x86/boot: Revert "Reject absolute references in .head.text"
  x86/boot: Check startup code for absence of absolute relocations
  objtool: Add action to check for absence of absolute relocations
  x86/sev: Export startup routines for later use
  x86/sev: Move __sev_[get|put]_ghcb() into separate noinstr object
  x86/sev: Provide PIC aliases for SEV related data objects
  x86/boot: Provide PIC aliases for 5-level paging related constants
  ...
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Pull x86 SEV and apic updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add functionality to provide runtime firmware updates for the non-x86
   parts of an AMD platform like the security processor (ASP) firmware,
   modules etc, for example. The intent being that these updates are
   interim, live fixups before a proper BIOS update can be attempted

 - Add guest support for AMD's Secure AVIC feature which gives encrypted
   guests the needed protection against a malicious hypervisor
   generating unexpected interrupts and injecting them into such guest,
   thus interfering with its operation in an unexpected and negative
   manner.

   The advantage of this scheme is that the guest determines which
   interrupts and when to accept them vs leaving that to the benevolence
   (or not) of the hypervisor

 - Strictly separate the startup code from the rest of the kernel where
   former is executed from the initial 1:1 mapping of memory.

   The problem was that the toolchain-generated version of the code was
   being executed from a different mapping of memory than what was
   "assumed" during code generation, needing an ever-growing pile of
   fixups for absolute memory references which are invalid in the early,
   1:1 memory mapping during boot.

   The major advantage of this is that there's no need to check the 1:1
   mapping portion of the code for absolute relocations anymore and get
   rid of the RIP_REL_REF() macro sprinkling all over the place.

   For more info, see Ard's very detailed writeup on this [1]

 - The usual cleanups and fixes

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMj1kXEzKEuePEiHB%2BHxvfQbFz0sTiHdn4B%2B%2BzVBJ2mhkPkQ4Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'x86_apic_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  x86/boot: Drop erroneous __init annotation from early_set_pages_state()
  crypto: ccp - Add AMD Seamless Firmware Servicing (SFS) driver
  crypto: ccp - Add new HV-Fixed page allocation/free API
  x86/sev: Add new dump_rmp parameter to snp_leak_pages() API
  x86/startup/sev: Document the CPUID flow in the boot #VC handler
  objtool: Ignore __pi___cfi_ prefixed symbols
  x86/sev: Zap snp_abort()
  x86/apic/savic: Do not use snp_abort()
  x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section
  x86/boot: Move startup code out of __head section
  efistub/x86: Remap inittext read-execute when needed
  x86/boot: Create a confined code area for startup code
  x86/kbuild: Incorporate boot/startup/ via Kbuild makefile
  x86/boot: Revert "Reject absolute references in .head.text"
  x86/boot: Check startup code for absence of absolute relocations
  objtool: Add action to check for absence of absolute relocations
  x86/sev: Export startup routines for later use
  x86/sev: Move __sev_[get|put]_ghcb() into separate noinstr object
  x86/sev: Provide PIC aliases for SEV related data objects
  x86/boot: Provide PIC aliases for 5-level paging related constants
  ...
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<entry>
<title>objtool/LoongArch: Mark special atomic instruction as INSN_BUG type</title>
<updated>2025-09-18T11:43:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T11:43:36+00:00</published>
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When compiling with LLVM and CONFIG_RUST is set, there exists the
following objtool warning:

  rust/compiler_builtins.o: warning: objtool: __rust__unordsf2(): unexpected end of section .text.unlikely.

objdump shows that the end of section .text.unlikely is an atomic
instruction:

  amswap.w        $zero, $ra, $zero

According to the LoongArch Reference Manual, if the amswap.w atomic
memory access instruction has the same register number as rd and rj,
the execution will trigger an Instruction Non-defined Exception, so
mark the above instruction as INSN_BUG type to fix the warning.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
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When compiling with LLVM and CONFIG_RUST is set, there exists the
following objtool warning:

  rust/compiler_builtins.o: warning: objtool: __rust__unordsf2(): unexpected end of section .text.unlikely.

objdump shows that the end of section .text.unlikely is an atomic
instruction:

  amswap.w        $zero, $ra, $zero

According to the LoongArch Reference Manual, if the amswap.w atomic
memory access instruction has the same register number as rd and rj,
the execution will trigger an Instruction Non-defined Exception, so
mark the above instruction as INSN_BUG type to fix the warning.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool/LoongArch: Mark types based on break immediate code</title>
<updated>2025-09-18T11:43:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T11:43:36+00:00</published>
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If the break immediate code is 0, it should mark the type as
INSN_TRAP. If the break immediate code is 1, it should mark the
type as INSN_BUG.

While at it, format the code style and add the code comment for nop.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: WANG Rui &lt;wangrui@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
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If the break immediate code is 0, it should mark the type as
INSN_TRAP. If the break immediate code is 1, it should mark the
type as INSN_BUG.

While at it, format the code style and add the code comment for nop.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: WANG Rui &lt;wangrui@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Add action to check for absence of absolute relocations</title>
<updated>2025-09-03T15:59:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-28T10:22:18+00:00</published>
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The x86 startup code must not use absolute references to code or data,
as it executes before the kernel virtual mapping is up.

Add an action to objtool to check all allocatable sections (with the
exception of __patchable_function_entries, which uses absolute
references for nebulous reasons) and raise an error if any absolute
references are found.

Note that debug sections typically contain lots of absolute references
too, but those are not allocatable so they will be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-39-ardb+git@google.com
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The x86 startup code must not use absolute references to code or data,
as it executes before the kernel virtual mapping is up.

Add an action to objtool to check all allocatable sections (with the
exception of __patchable_function_entries, which uses absolute
references for nebulous reasons) and raise an error if any absolute
references are found.

Note that debug sections typically contain lots of absolute references
too, but those are not allocatable so they will be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-39-ardb+git@google.com
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<entry>
<title>objtool/LoongArch: Get table size correctly if LTO is enabled</title>
<updated>2025-08-20T14:23:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-20T14:23:15+00:00</published>
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When compiling with LLVM and CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is set, there exist many
objtool warnings "sibling call from callable instruction with modified
stack frame".

For this special case, the related object file shows that there is no
generated relocation section '.rela.discard.tablejump_annotate' for the
table jump instruction jirl, thus objtool can not know that what is the
actual destination address.

It needs to do something on the LLVM side to make sure that there is the
relocation section '.rela.discard.tablejump_annotate' if LTO is enabled,
but in order to maintain compatibility for the current LLVM compiler,
this can be done in the kernel Makefile for now. Ensure it is aware of
linker with LTO, '--loongarch-annotate-tablejump' needs to be passed via
'-mllvm' to ld.lld.

Before doing the above changes, it should handle the special case of the
relocation section '.rela.discard.tablejump_annotate' to get the correct
table size first, otherwise there are many objtool warnings and errors
if LTO is enabled.

There are many different rodata for each function if LTO is enabled, it
is necessary to enhance get_rodata_table_size_by_table_annotate().

Fixes: b95f852d3af2 ("objtool/LoongArch: Add support for switch table")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/20250731175655.GA1455142@ax162/
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
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When compiling with LLVM and CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is set, there exist many
objtool warnings "sibling call from callable instruction with modified
stack frame".

For this special case, the related object file shows that there is no
generated relocation section '.rela.discard.tablejump_annotate' for the
table jump instruction jirl, thus objtool can not know that what is the
actual destination address.

It needs to do something on the LLVM side to make sure that there is the
relocation section '.rela.discard.tablejump_annotate' if LTO is enabled,
but in order to maintain compatibility for the current LLVM compiler,
this can be done in the kernel Makefile for now. Ensure it is aware of
linker with LTO, '--loongarch-annotate-tablejump' needs to be passed via
'-mllvm' to ld.lld.

Before doing the above changes, it should handle the special case of the
relocation section '.rela.discard.tablejump_annotate' to get the correct
table size first, otherwise there are many objtool warnings and errors
if LTO is enabled.

There are many different rodata for each function if LTO is enabled, it
is necessary to enhance get_rodata_table_size_by_table_annotate().

Fixes: b95f852d3af2 ("objtool/LoongArch: Add support for switch table")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/20250731175655.GA1455142@ax162/
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge commit 'its-for-linus-20250509-merge' into x86/core, to resolve conflicts</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T08:47:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-13T08:47:10+00:00</published>
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 Conflicts:
	Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
	arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
	arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	drivers/base/cpu.c
	include/linux/cpu.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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 Conflicts:
	Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
	arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
	arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	drivers/base/cpu.c
	include/linux/cpu.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/its: FineIBT-paranoid vs ITS</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T20:39:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-23T07:57:31+00:00</published>
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FineIBT-paranoid was using the retpoline bytes for the paranoid check,
disabling retpolines, because all parts that have IBT also have eIBRS
and thus don't need no stinking retpolines.

Except... ITS needs the retpolines for indirect calls must not be in
the first half of a cacheline :-/

So what was the paranoid call sequence:

  &lt;fineibt_paranoid_start&gt;:
   0:   41 ba 78 56 34 12       mov    $0x12345678, %r10d
   6:   45 3b 53 f7             cmp    -0x9(%r11), %r10d
   a:   4d 8d 5b &lt;f0&gt;           lea    -0x10(%r11), %r11
   e:   75 fd                   jne    d &lt;fineibt_paranoid_start+0xd&gt;
  10:   41 ff d3                call   *%r11
  13:   90                      nop

Now becomes:

  &lt;fineibt_paranoid_start&gt;:
   0:   41 ba 78 56 34 12       mov    $0x12345678, %r10d
   6:   45 3b 53 f7             cmp    -0x9(%r11), %r10d
   a:   4d 8d 5b f0             lea    -0x10(%r11), %r11
   e:   2e e8 XX XX XX XX	cs call __x86_indirect_paranoid_thunk_r11

  Where the paranoid_thunk looks like:

   1d:  &lt;ea&gt;                    (bad)
   __x86_indirect_paranoid_thunk_r11:
   1e:  75 fd                   jne 1d
   __x86_indirect_its_thunk_r11:
   20:  41 ff eb                jmp *%r11
   23:  cc                      int3

[ dhansen: remove initialization to false ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
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FineIBT-paranoid was using the retpoline bytes for the paranoid check,
disabling retpolines, because all parts that have IBT also have eIBRS
and thus don't need no stinking retpolines.

Except... ITS needs the retpolines for indirect calls must not be in
the first half of a cacheline :-/

So what was the paranoid call sequence:

  &lt;fineibt_paranoid_start&gt;:
   0:   41 ba 78 56 34 12       mov    $0x12345678, %r10d
   6:   45 3b 53 f7             cmp    -0x9(%r11), %r10d
   a:   4d 8d 5b &lt;f0&gt;           lea    -0x10(%r11), %r11
   e:   75 fd                   jne    d &lt;fineibt_paranoid_start+0xd&gt;
  10:   41 ff d3                call   *%r11
  13:   90                      nop

Now becomes:

  &lt;fineibt_paranoid_start&gt;:
   0:   41 ba 78 56 34 12       mov    $0x12345678, %r10d
   6:   45 3b 53 f7             cmp    -0x9(%r11), %r10d
   a:   4d 8d 5b f0             lea    -0x10(%r11), %r11
   e:   2e e8 XX XX XX XX	cs call __x86_indirect_paranoid_thunk_r11

  Where the paranoid_thunk looks like:

   1d:  &lt;ea&gt;                    (bad)
   __x86_indirect_paranoid_thunk_r11:
   1e:  75 fd                   jne 1d
   __x86_indirect_its_thunk_r11:
   20:  41 ff eb                jmp *%r11
   23:  cc                      int3

[ dhansen: remove initialization to false ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Add a bunch of PIC aliases</title>
<updated>2025-05-04T13:59:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-04T09:52:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=419cbaf6a56a6e4b7e6d2278302c197f55dec830'/>
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Add aliases for all the data objects that the startup code references -
this is needed so that this code can be moved into its own confined area
where it can only access symbols that have a __pi_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250504095230.2932860-39-ardb+git@google.com
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Add aliases for all the data objects that the startup code references -
this is needed so that this code can be moved into its own confined area
where it can only access symbols that have a __pi_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250504095230.2932860-39-ardb+git@google.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Fix false-positive "ignoring unreachables" warning</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T20:55:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-09T22:49:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=87cb582d2f55d379ce95b5bcc4ec596e29b0a65e'/>
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There's no need to try to automatically disable unreachable warnings if
they've already been manually disabled due to CONFIG_KCOV quirks.

This avoids a spurious warning with a KCOV kernel:

  fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.o: warning: objtool: cifsConvertToUTF16.part.0+0xce5: ignoring unreachables due to jump table quirk

Fixes: eeff7ac61526 ("objtool: Warn when disabling unreachable warnings")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5eb28eeb6a724b7d945a961cfdcf8d41e6edf3dc.1744238814.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202504090910.QkvTAR36-lkp@intel.com/
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There's no need to try to automatically disable unreachable warnings if
they've already been manually disabled due to CONFIG_KCOV quirks.

This avoids a spurious warning with a KCOV kernel:

  fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.o: warning: objtool: cifsConvertToUTF16.part.0+0xce5: ignoring unreachables due to jump table quirk

Fixes: eeff7ac61526 ("objtool: Warn when disabling unreachable warnings")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5eb28eeb6a724b7d945a961cfdcf8d41e6edf3dc.1744238814.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202504090910.QkvTAR36-lkp@intel.com/
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