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Commit c6cfcbd8 authored by Josh Poimboeuf's avatar Josh Poimboeuf Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm



The following warning is reported when frame pointers and kernel IBT are
enabled:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: ibt_selftest+0x11: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame

The problem is that objtool interprets the indirect branch in
ibt_selftest() as a sibling call, and GCC inserts a (partial) frame
pointer prologue before it:

  0000 000000000003f550 <ibt_selftest>:
  0000    3f550:	f3 0f 1e fa          	endbr64
  0004    3f554:	e8 00 00 00 00       	call   3f559 <ibt_selftest+0x9>	3f555: R_X86_64_PLT32	__fentry__-0x4
  0009    3f559:	55                   	push   %rbp
  000a    3f55a:	48 8d 05 02 00 00 00 	lea    0x2(%rip),%rax        # 3f563 <ibt_selftest_ip>
  0011    3f561:	ff e0                	jmp    *%rax

Note the inline asm is missing ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT, so the 'push %rbp'
happens before the indirect branch and the 'mov %rsp, %rbp' happens
afterwards.

Simplify the generated code and make it easier to understand for both
tools and humans by moving the selftest to proper asm.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/99a7e16b97bda97bf0a04aa141d6241cd8a839a2.1680912949.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
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