[PATCH 3/3] arm64: Drop the inline assembly implementation of function_nocfi

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Mon Apr 4 02:03:09 PDT 2022


On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 01:19:16PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> Drop the inline assembly version of function_nocfi() now that
> CONFIG_CFI_CLANG depends on __builtin_function_start(), which allows
> this macro to be implemented more cleanly and in a way that works also
> with static initializers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/compiler.h | 16 ----------------
>  1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/compiler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/compiler.h
> index dc3ea4080e2e..6fb2e6bcc392 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/compiler.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/compiler.h
> @@ -23,20 +23,4 @@
>  #define __builtin_return_address(val)					\
>  	(void *)(ptrauth_clear_pac((unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(val)))
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
> -/*
> - * With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler replaces function address
> - * references with the address of the function's CFI jump table
> - * entry. The function_nocfi macro always returns the address of the
> - * actual function instead.
> - */
> -#define function_nocfi(x) ({						\
> -	void *addr;							\
> -	asm("adrp %0, " __stringify(x) "\n\t"				\
> -	    "add  %0, %0, :lo12:" __stringify(x)			\
> -	    : "=r" (addr));						\
> -	addr;								\
> -})
> -#endif
> -
>  #endif /* __ASM_COMPILER_H */

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

Will



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