Josh Poimboeuf c9c324dc22 objtool: Support stack layout changes in alternatives ... The ORC unwinder showed a warning [1] which revealed the stack layout didn't match what was expected. The problem was that paravirt patching had replaced "CALL *pv_ops.irq.save_fl" with "PUSHF;POP". That changed the stack layout between the PUSHF and the POP, so unwinding from an interrupt which occurred between those two instructions would fail. Part of the agreed upon solution was to rework the custom paravirt patching code to use alternatives instead, since objtool already knows how to read alternatives (and converging runtime patching infrastructure is always a good thing anyway). But the main problem still remains, which is that runtime patching can change the stack layout. Making stack layout changes in alternatives was disallowed with commit 7117f16bf4 ("objtool: Fix ORC vs alternatives"), but now that paravirt is going to be doing it, it needs to be supported. One way to do so would be to modify the ORC table when the code gets patched. But ORC is simple -- a good thing! -- and it's best to leave it alone. Instead, support stack layout changes by "flattening" all possible stack states (CFI) from parallel alternative code streams into a single set of linear states. The only necessary limitation is that CFI conflicts are disallowed at all possible instruction boundaries. For example, this scenario is allowed: Alt1 Alt2 Alt3 0x00 CALL *pv_ops.save_fl CALL xen_save_fl PUSHF 0x01 POP %RAX 0x02 NOP ... 0x05 NOP ... 0x07 <insn> The unwind information for offset-0x00 is identical for all 3 alternatives. Similarly offset-0x05 and higher also are identical (and the same as 0x00). However offset-0x01 has deviating CFI, but that is only relevant for Alt3, neither of the other alternative instruction streams will ever hit that offset. This scenario is NOT allowed: Alt1 Alt2 0x00 CALL *pv_ops.save_fl PUSHF 0x01 NOP6 ... 0x07 NOP POP %RAX The problem here is that offset-0x7, which is an instruction boundary in both possible instruction patch streams, has two conflicting stack layouts. [ The above examples were stolen from Peter Zijlstra. ] The new flattened CFI array is used both for the detection of conflicts (like the second example above) and the generation of linear ORC entries. BTW, another benefit of these changes is that, thanks to some related cleanups (new fake nops and alt_group struct) objtool can finally be rid of fake jumps, which were a constant source of headaches. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201111170536.arx2zbn4ngvjoov7@treble Cc: Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>		2021-01-14 09:53:54 -06:00
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stack-validation.txt	objtool: Support stack layout changes in alternatives	2021-01-14 09:53:54 -06:00