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Message-ID: <20250506073100.GG4198@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 09:31:00 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org, kys@...rosoft.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] objtool: Detect and warn about indirect calls
 in __nocfi functions

On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 11:28:37AM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 11:50:23AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64_fred.S
> > > @@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(asm_fred_entry_from_kvm)
> > >  	movq %rsp, %rdi				/* %rdi -> pt_regs */
> > >  	call __fred_entry_from_kvm		/* Call the C entry point */
> > >  	POP_REGS
> > > -	ERETS
> > > +
> > > +	ALTERNATIVE "", __stringify(ERETS), X86_FEATURE_FRED
> > >  1:
> > >  	/*
> > >  	 * Objtool doesn't understand what ERETS does, this hint tells it that
> > > @@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(asm_fred_entry_from_kvm)
> > >  	 * isn't strictly needed, but it's the simplest form.
> > >  	 */
> > >  	UNWIND_HINT_RESTORE
> > > -	pop %rbp
> > > +	leave
> > >  	RET
> > 
> > So this, while clever, might be a problem with ORC unwinding. Because
> > now the stack is different depending on the alternative, and we can't
> > deal with that.
> > 
> > Anyway, I'll go have a poke on Monday (or Tuesday if Monday turns out to
> > be a bank holiday :-).
> 
> Can we just adjust the stack in the alternative?
> 
> 	ALTERNATIVE "add $64 %rsp", __stringify(ERETS), X86_FEATURE_FRED

Yes, that should work. But I wanted to have a poke at objtool, so it
will properly complain about the mistake first.