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authorArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2025-02-21 14:57:07 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-03-07 18:27:03 +0100
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objtool: Fix C jump table annotations for Clang
[ Upstream commit 73cfc53cc3b6380eccf013049574485f64cb83ca ] A C jump table (such as the one used by the BPF interpreter) is a const global array of absolute code addresses, and this means that the actual values in the table may not be known until the kernel is booted (e.g., when using KASLR or when the kernel VA space is sized dynamically). When using PIE codegen, the compiler will default to placing such const global objects in .data.rel.ro (which is annotated as writable), rather than .rodata (which is annotated as read-only). As C jump tables are explicitly emitted into .rodata, this used to result in warnings for LoongArch builds (which uses PIE codegen for the entire kernel) like Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for .rodata..c_jump_table due to the fact that the explicitly specified .rodata section inherited the read-write annotation that the compiler uses for such objects when using PIE codegen. This warning was suppressed by explicitly adding the read-only annotation to the __attribute__((section(""))) string, by commit c5b1184decc8 ("compiler.h: specify correct attribute for .rodata..c_jump_table") Unfortunately, this hack does not work on Clang's integrated assembler, which happily interprets the appended section type and permission specifiers as part of the section name, which therefore no longer matches the hard-coded pattern '.rodata..c_jump_table' that objtool expects, causing it to emit a warning kernel/bpf/core.o: warning: objtool: ___bpf_prog_run+0x20: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame Work around this, by emitting C jump tables into .data.rel.ro instead, which is treated as .rodata by the linker script for all builds, not just PIE based ones. Fixes: c5b1184decc8 ("compiler.h: specify correct attribute for .rodata..c_jump_table") Tested-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> # on LoongArch Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250221135704.431269-6-ardb+git@google.com Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 8104d3568d67..d004f9b5528d 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
/* Unreachable code */
#ifdef CONFIG_OBJTOOL
/* Annotate a C jump table to allow objtool to follow the code flow */
-#define __annotate_jump_table __section(".rodata..c_jump_table,\"a\",@progbits #")
+#define __annotate_jump_table __section(".data.rel.ro.c_jump_table")
#else /* !CONFIG_OBJTOOL */
#define __annotate_jump_table
#endif /* CONFIG_OBJTOOL */