[PATCH 0/2] arm64: Implement support for BTI veneers

Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Recent toolchains will omit BTI landing pads from functions with static
linkage that never have their address taken. If a landing pad is needed
nonetheless, it is up to the static linker to emit a BTI veneer withing
direct branching range of the target, and direct the call to the veneer
instead.

Modules are partially linked objects, and so there is no static linker
that can do this for us. Instead, the module loader must see to this.

So implement this for the arm64 module loader. Patch #2 contains a test
module that was used to validate the approach.

Cc: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ed4fe1f95071897859ec7fbe9176246cbd4962bf.1786138806.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org/

Ard Biesheuvel (2):
  arm64: module: Emit BTI veneers for cross-section calls
  DONOTMERGE: arm64: module: Test module for BTI veneers

 arch/arm64/Kconfig                  |   2 -
 arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h     |  12 ++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h |   3 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile          |   1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/bti_veneer_test.c |  26 ++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c     | 128 +++++++++++++++++++-
 6 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/bti_veneer_test.c

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