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For certain configs objtool will complain like:
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: lkdtm_UNSET_SMEP+0x1c3: relocation to !ENDBR: native_write_cr4+0x41
What happens is that GCC optimizes the loop:
insn = (unsigned char *)native_write_cr4;
for (i = 0; i < MOV_CR4_DEPTH; i++)
to read something like:
for (insn = (unsigned char *)native_write_cr4;
insn < (unsigned char *)native_write_cr4 + MOV_CR4_DEPTH;
insn++)
Which then obviously generates the text reference
native_write_cr4+041. Since none of this is a fast path, simply
confuse GCC enough to inhibit this optimization.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y3JdgbXRV0MNZ+9h@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.