[RFC PATCH v3 10/20] arm64: Drop unneeded __nocfi attributes

Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen at google.com
Fri Jun 10 16:35:03 PDT 2022


With -fsanitize=kcfi, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG no longer has issues
with address space confusion in functions that switch to linear
mapping. Now that the indirectly called assembly functions have
type annotations, drop the __nocfi attributes.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c      | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c       | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index 6770667b34a3..ca0140d0b8cf 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static inline void cpu_install_ttbr0(phys_addr_t ttbr0, unsigned long t0sz)
  * Atomically replaces the active TTBR1_EL1 PGD with a new VA-compatible PGD,
  * avoiding the possibility of conflicting TLB entries being allocated.
  */
-static inline void __nocfi cpu_replace_ttbr1(pgd_t *pgdp)
+static inline void cpu_replace_ttbr1(pgd_t *pgdp)
 {
 	typedef void (ttbr_replace_func)(phys_addr_t);
 	extern ttbr_replace_func idmap_cpu_replace_ttbr1;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
index 7bbf5104b7b7..e98466bab633 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static void clean_dcache_range_nopatch(u64 start, u64 end)
 	} while (cur += d_size, cur < end);
 }
 
-static void __nocfi __apply_alternatives(struct alt_region *region, bool is_module,
+static void __apply_alternatives(struct alt_region *region, bool is_module,
 				 unsigned long *feature_mask)
 {
 	struct alt_instr *alt;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 42ea2bd856c6..f6f9694d0448 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1645,7 +1645,7 @@ static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
-static void __nocfi
+static void
 kpti_install_ng_mappings(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *__unused)
 {
 	typedef void (kpti_remap_fn)(int, int, phys_addr_t);
-- 
2.36.1.476.g0c4daa206d-goog




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