[RFC PATCH v3 16/20] kallsyms: Drop CONFIG_CFI_CLANG workarounds

Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen at google.com
Fri Jun 10 16:35:09 PDT 2022


With -fsanitize=kcfi, the compiler no longer renames static
functions with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG + ThinLTO. Drop the code that cleans
up the ThinLTO hash from the function names.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
---
 kernel/kallsyms.c | 17 -----------------
 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index fbdf8d3279ac..2fbb94817e02 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ static bool cleanup_symbol_name(char *s)
 	 * character in an identifier in C. Suffixes observed:
 	 * - foo.llvm.[0-9a-f]+
 	 * - foo.[0-9a-f]+
-	 * - foo.[0-9a-f]+.cfi_jt
 	 */
 	res = strchr(s, '.');
 	if (res) {
@@ -187,22 +186,6 @@ static bool cleanup_symbol_name(char *s)
 		return true;
 	}
 
-	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CFI_CLANG) ||
-	    !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN) ||
-	    CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION >= 130000)
-		return false;
-
-	/*
-	 * Prior to LLVM 13, the following suffixes were observed when thinLTO
-	 * and CFI are both enabled:
-	 * - foo$[0-9]+
-	 */
-	res = strrchr(s, '$');
-	if (res) {
-		*res = '\0';
-		return true;
-	}
-
 	return false;
 }
 
-- 
2.36.1.476.g0c4daa206d-goog




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