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Revision c0a454b9044fdc99486853aa424e5b3be2107078 authored by Mark Brown on 05 September 2022, 14:22:55 UTC, committed by Will Deacon on 06 September 2022, 07:56:46 UTC
GCC does not insert a `bti c` instruction at the beginning of a function
when it believes that all callers reach the function through a direct
branch[1]. Unfortunately the logic it uses to determine this is not
sufficiently robust, for example not taking account of functions being
placed in different sections which may be loaded separately, so we may
still see thunks being generated to these functions. If that happens,
the first instruction in the callee function will result in a Branch
Target Exception due to the missing landing pad.

While this has currently only been observed in the case of modules
having their main code loaded sufficiently far from their init section
to require thunks it could potentially happen for other cases so the
safest thing is to disable BTI for the kernel when building with an
affected toolchain.

[1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106671

Reported-by: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
[Bits of the commit message are lifted from his report & workaround]
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220905142255.591990-1-broonie@kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Tip revision: c0a454b9044fdc99486853aa424e5b3be2107078 authored by Mark Brown on 05 September 2022, 14:22:55 UTC
arm64/bti: Disable in kernel BTI when cross section thunks are broken
Tip revision: c0a454b
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