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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> | 2016-02-29 07:22:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-02-29 10:35:10 +0300 |
| commit | 9a99417acbad99ba6c6a9389b45a53a4d002bb7e (patch) | |
| tree | a7eb9724371faa5314cbd8c9e4a26c278c9ffc05 | |
| parent | c0dd671686b2229e888ede77682ab0633b2a0dd7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9a99417acbad99ba6c6a9389b45a53a4d002bb7e.tar.xz | |
objtool: Add STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD() macro
Add a new macro, STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(), which is used to denote a
function which does something unusual related to its stack frame. Use
of the macro prevents objtool from emitting a false positive warning.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/34487a17b23dba43c50941599d47054a9584b219.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/frame.h | 23 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 92dc211c11db..13fa0ad62df8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -343,7 +343,10 @@ SECTIONS /* Sections to be discarded */ DISCARDS - /DISCARD/ : { *(.eh_frame) } + /DISCARD/ : { + *(.eh_frame) + *(__func_stack_frame_non_standard) + } } diff --git a/include/linux/frame.h b/include/linux/frame.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e6baaba3f1ae --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/frame.h @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +#ifndef _LINUX_FRAME_H +#define _LINUX_FRAME_H + +#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION +/* + * This macro marks the given function's stack frame as "non-standard", which + * tells objtool to ignore the function when doing stack metadata validation. + * It should only be used in special cases where you're 100% sure it won't + * affect the reliability of frame pointers and kernel stack traces. + * + * For more information, see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. + */ +#define STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(func) \ + static void __used __section(__func_stack_frame_non_standard) \ + *__func_stack_frame_non_standard_##func = func + +#else /* !CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION */ + +#define STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(func) + +#endif /* CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION */ + +#endif /* _LINUX_FRAME_H */ |