[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 5/6] ARM: 9434/1: cfi: Fix compilation corner case

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Wed Nov 20 06:06:35 PST 2024


From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

[ Upstream commit 4aea16b7cfb76bd3361858ceee6893ef5c9b5570 ]

When enabling expert mode CONFIG_EXPERT and using that power
user mode to disable the branch prediction hardening
!CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR, the assembly linker
in CLANG notices that some assembly in proc-v7.S does
not have corresponding C call sites, i.e. the prototypes
in proc-v7-bugs.c are enclosed in ifdef
CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR so this assembly:

SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START(cpu_v7_smc_switch_mm)
SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START(cpu_v7_hvc_switch_mm)

Results in:

ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __kcfi_typeid_cpu_v7_smc_switch_mm
>>> referenced by proc-v7.S:94 (.../arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S:94)
>>> arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.o:(.text+0x108) in archive vmlinux.a

ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __kcfi_typeid_cpu_v7_hvc_switch_mm
>>> referenced by proc-v7.S:105 (.../arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S:105)
>>> arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.o:(.text+0x124) in archive vmlinux.a

Fix this by adding an additional requirement that
CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR has to be enabled to compile
these assembly calls.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202411041456.ZsoEiD7T-lkp@intel.com/

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
index 193c7aeb67039..bea11f9bfe856 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ ENTRY(cpu_v7_dcache_clean_area)
 	ret	lr
 ENDPROC(cpu_v7_dcache_clean_area)
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_PSCI
+#if defined(CONFIG_ARM_PSCI) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
 	.arch_extension sec
 ENTRY(cpu_v7_smc_switch_mm)
 	stmfd	sp!, {r0 - r3}
-- 
2.43.0




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