linux-hardening - [PATCH v2 15/17] arm64: add __nocfi to __apply

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Date:   Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:11:09 -0700
From:   Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 15/17] arm64: add __nocfi to __apply_alternatives

__apply_alternatives makes indirect calls to functions whose address
is taken in assembly code using the alternative_cb macro. With
non-canonical CFI, the compiler won't replace these function
references with the jump table addresses, which trips CFI. Disable CFI
checking in the function to work around the issue.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
index 1184c44ea2c7..abc84636af07 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ static void clean_dcache_range_nopatch(u64 start, u64 end)
 	} while (cur += d_size, cur < end);
 }
 
-static void __apply_alternatives(void *alt_region,  bool is_module,
-				 unsigned long *feature_mask)
+static void __nocfi __apply_alternatives(void *alt_region,  bool is_module,
+					 unsigned long *feature_mask)
 {
 	struct alt_instr *alt;
 	struct alt_region *region = alt_region;
-- 
2.31.0.291.g576ba9dcdaf-goog