linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 08/28] x86, build: use objtool mcount

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Date:   Thu, 3 Sep 2020 15:11:54 -0700
From:   Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
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        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
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        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/28] x86, build: use objtool mcount

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:58 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:30:33PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > Select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT if STACK_VALIDATION is selected to use
> > objtool to generate __mcount_loc sections for dynamic ftrace with
> > Clang and gcc <5.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
>
> Am I right to understand that this fixes mcount for Clang generally
> (i.e. it's not _strictly_ related to LTO, though LTO depends on this
> change)?

No, this works fine with Clang when LTO is disabled, because
recordmcount ignores files named "ftrace.o". However, with LTO, we
process vmlinux.o instead, so we need a different method of ignoring
__fentry__ relocations that are not calls.

In v1, I used a function attribute to whitelist functions that refer
to __fentry__, but as Peter pointed out back then, objtool already
knows where the call sites are, so using it to generate __mcount_loc
is cleaner.

> And does this mean mcount was working for gcc < 5?

Yes. I should have been clearer in the commit message. The reason I
mentioned gcc <5 is that later gcc versions support -mrecord-mcount,
which means they don't need an external tool for generating
__mcount_loc anymore.

Sami