static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called

Usage of the static key primitives to toggle a branch must not be used
before jump_label_init() is called from init/main.c. jump_label_init
reorganizes and wires up the jump_entries so usage before that could
have unforeseen consequences.

Following primitives are now checked for correct use:
* static_key_slow_inc
* static_key_slow_dec
* static_key_slow_dec_deferred
* jump_label_rate_limit

The x86 architecture already checks this by testing if the default_nop
was already replaced with an optimal nop or with a branch instruction. It
will panic then. Other architectures don't check for this.

Because we need to relax this check for the x86 arch to allow code to
transition from default_nop to the enabled state and other architectures
did not check for this at all this patch introduces checking on the
static_key primitives in a non-arch dependent manner.

All checked functions are considered slow-path so the additional check
does no harm to performance.

The warnings are best observed with earlyprintk.

Based on a patch from Andi Kleen.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/jump_label.h b/include/linux/jump_label.h
index a5079072da66..e96be7245717 100644
--- a/include/linux/jump_label.h
+++ b/include/linux/jump_label.h
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/bug.h>
+
+extern bool static_key_initialized;
+
+#define STATIC_KEY_CHECK_USE() WARN(!static_key_initialized,		      \
+				    "%s used before call to jump_label_init", \
+				    __func__)
 
 #if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) && defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)
 
@@ -128,6 +135,7 @@ struct static_key {
 
 static __always_inline void jump_label_init(void)
 {
+	static_key_initialized = true;
 }
 
 static __always_inline bool static_key_false(struct static_key *key)
@@ -146,11 +154,13 @@ static __always_inline bool static_key_true(struct static_key *key)
 
 static inline void static_key_slow_inc(struct static_key *key)
 {
+	STATIC_KEY_CHECK_USE();
 	atomic_inc(&key->enabled);
 }
 
 static inline void static_key_slow_dec(struct static_key *key)
 {
+	STATIC_KEY_CHECK_USE();
 	atomic_dec(&key->enabled);
 }