[PATCH 2/2] arm64: scs: Disable LTO for SCS patching code

[Ard Biesheuvel]

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>

Full LTO takes the '-mbranch-protection=none' passed to the compiler
when generating the dynamic shadow call stack patching code as a hint to
stop emitting PAC instructions altogether. (Thin LTO appears unaffected
by this)

Work around this by disabling LTO for the compilation unit, which
appears to convince the linker that it should still use PAC in the rest
of the kernel..

Fixes: 3b619e22c460 ("arm64: implement dynamic shadow call stack for Clang")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
index d95b3d6b471a..467cb7117273 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
@@ -73,7 +73,13 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64_MTE)			+= mte.o
 obj-y					+= vdso-wrap.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO)		+= vdso32-wrap.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_UNWIND_PATCH_PAC_INTO_SCS)	+= patch-scs.o
+
+# We need to prevent the SCS patching code from patching itself. Using
+# -mbranch-protection=none here to avoid the patchable PAC opcodes from being
+# generated triggers an issue with full LTO on Clang, which stops emitting PAC
+# instructions altogether. So disable LTO as well for the compilation unit.
 CFLAGS_patch-scs.o			+= -mbranch-protection=none
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_patch-scs.o		+= $(CC_FLAGS_LTO)
 
 # Force dependency (vdso*-wrap.S includes vdso.so through incbin)
 $(obj)/vdso-wrap.o: $(obj)/vdso/vdso.so
-- 
2.43.0.429.g432eaa2c6b-goog