[PATCH v5 12/33] objtool: arm64: Enable stack validation for arm64

Chen Zhongjin chenzhongjin at huawei.com
Wed Jun 22 08:48:59 PDT 2022


Add build option to run stack validation at compile time.

When requiring stack validation, jump tables are disabled as it
simplifies objtool analysis (without having to introduce unreliable
artifacs). In local testing, this does not appear to significaly
affect final binary size nor system performance.

Signed-off-by: Raphael Gault <raphael.gault at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin at huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig       |  2 ++
 arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/Makefile      |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 57c4c995965f..30d3d549160f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ config ARM64
 	select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 	select HAVE_RSEQ
 	select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
+	select HAVE_OBJTOOL
+	select HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
 	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
 	select HAVE_KPROBES
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
index 265c4461031f..c2c68c6f7557 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
@@ -20,4 +20,25 @@ config ARM64_RELOC_TEST
 	depends on m
 	tristate "Relocation testing module"
 
+choice
+    prompt "Choose kernel unwinder"
+    default UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
+    help
+      This determines which method will be used for unwinding kernel stack
+      traces for panics, oopses, bugs, warnings, perf, /proc/<pid>/stack,
+      livepatch, lockdep, and more.
+
+config UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER
+    bool "Frame pointer unwinder"
+    select FRAME_POINTER
+    help
+      This option enables the frame pointer unwinder for unwinding kernel
+      stack traces.
+
+      The unwinder itself is fast and it uses less RAM than the ORC
+      unwinder, but the kernel text size will grow by ~3% and the kernel's
+      overall performance will degrade by roughly 5-10%.
+
+endchoice
+
 source "drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index 2f1de88651e6..ad2f4a5e8f6c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS),y)
   CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=2
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION),y)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-jump-tables
+endif
+
 # Default value
 head-y		:= arch/arm64/kernel/head.o
 
-- 
2.17.1




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