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Message-ID: <20250528163035.GH31726@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 18:30:35 +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 Wed, May 28, 2025 at 09:44:52AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 12:18:49PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> > Weird, I'm not seeing that.
> 
> I Ate'nt Crazeh...
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/202505280410.2qfTQCRt-lkp@intel.com/T/#u
> 
> I'll go poke at it, see if today is the day I can figure out WTF
> happens.

It manages to trip the CFI_UNDEFINED case in op->dest.reg == cfa->base
in update_cfi_state().

I figured it ought to tickle the regular 'mov %rbp, %rsp' case above
there, but it doesn't, for some reason it has cfa.base == SP at this
point.

This happens... /me looks in scrollback ... at POP_REGS 'pop
%rbp'. ARGH!!


So the sequence of fail is:

	push %rbp
	mov %rsp, %rbp	# cfa.base = BP

	SAVE
	...
	push %rbp
	...
	pop %rbp	# cfa.base = SP
	...
	mov %rbp, %rsp  # UNDEF
	nop		# FAIL
	RESTORE

Note that the MOV+NOP is the 4 bytes ERETS needs.