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<title>linux.git/tools/objtool, branch v6.5</title>
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<title>objtool/x86: Fixup frame-pointer vs rethunk</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T22:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-16T11:59:21+00:00</published>
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For stack-validation of a frame-pointer build, objtool validates that
every CALL instruction is preceded by a frame-setup. The new SRSO
return thunks violate this with their RSB stuffing trickery.

Extend the __fentry__ exception to also cover the embedded_insn case
used for this. This cures:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: srso_untrain_ret+0xd: call without frame pointer save/setup

Fixes: 4ae68b26c3ab ("objtool/x86: Fix SRSO mess")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230816115921.GH980931@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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For stack-validation of a frame-pointer build, objtool validates that
every CALL instruction is preceded by a frame-setup. The new SRSO
return thunks violate this with their RSB stuffing trickery.

Extend the __fentry__ exception to also cover the embedded_insn case
used for this. This cures:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: srso_untrain_ret+0xd: call without frame pointer save/setup

Fixes: 4ae68b26c3ab ("objtool/x86: Fix SRSO mess")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230816115921.GH980931@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Rename original retbleed methods</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T19:47:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T11:44:32+00:00</published>
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Rename the original retbleed return thunk and untrain_ret to
retbleed_return_thunk() and retbleed_untrain_ret().

No functional changes.

Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814121148.909378169@infradead.org
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Rename the original retbleed return thunk and untrain_ret to
retbleed_return_thunk() and retbleed_untrain_ret().

No functional changes.

Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814121148.909378169@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Clean up SRSO return thunk mess</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T19:47:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T11:44:31+00:00</published>
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Use the existing configurable return thunk. There is absolute no
justification for having created this __x86_return_thunk alternative.

To clarify, the whole thing looks like:

Zen3/4 does:

  srso_alias_untrain_ret:
	  nop2
	  lfence
	  jmp srso_alias_return_thunk
	  int3

  srso_alias_safe_ret: // aliasses srso_alias_untrain_ret just so
	  add $8, %rsp
	  ret
	  int3

  srso_alias_return_thunk:
	  call srso_alias_safe_ret
	  ud2

While Zen1/2 does:

  srso_untrain_ret:
	  movabs $foo, %rax
	  lfence
	  call srso_safe_ret           (jmp srso_return_thunk ?)
	  int3

  srso_safe_ret: // embedded in movabs instruction
	  add $8,%rsp
          ret
          int3

  srso_return_thunk:
	  call srso_safe_ret
	  ud2

While retbleed does:

  zen_untrain_ret:
	  test $0xcc, %bl
	  lfence
	  jmp zen_return_thunk
          int3

  zen_return_thunk: // embedded in the test instruction
	  ret
          int3

Where Zen1/2 flush the BTB entry using the instruction decoder trick
(test,movabs) Zen3/4 use BTB aliasing. SRSO adds a return sequence
(srso_safe_ret()) which forces the function return instruction to
speculate into a trap (UD2).  This RET will then mispredict and
execution will continue at the return site read from the top of the
stack.

Pick one of three options at boot (evey function can only ever return
once).

  [ bp: Fixup commit message uarch details and add them in a comment in
    the code too. Add a comment about the srso_select_mitigation()
    dependency on retbleed_select_mitigation(). Add moar ifdeffery for
    32-bit builds. Add a dummy srso_untrain_ret_alias() definition for
    32-bit alternatives needing the symbol. ]

Fixes: fb3bd914b3ec ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814121148.842775684@infradead.org
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Use the existing configurable return thunk. There is absolute no
justification for having created this __x86_return_thunk alternative.

To clarify, the whole thing looks like:

Zen3/4 does:

  srso_alias_untrain_ret:
	  nop2
	  lfence
	  jmp srso_alias_return_thunk
	  int3

  srso_alias_safe_ret: // aliasses srso_alias_untrain_ret just so
	  add $8, %rsp
	  ret
	  int3

  srso_alias_return_thunk:
	  call srso_alias_safe_ret
	  ud2

While Zen1/2 does:

  srso_untrain_ret:
	  movabs $foo, %rax
	  lfence
	  call srso_safe_ret           (jmp srso_return_thunk ?)
	  int3

  srso_safe_ret: // embedded in movabs instruction
	  add $8,%rsp
          ret
          int3

  srso_return_thunk:
	  call srso_safe_ret
	  ud2

While retbleed does:

  zen_untrain_ret:
	  test $0xcc, %bl
	  lfence
	  jmp zen_return_thunk
          int3

  zen_return_thunk: // embedded in the test instruction
	  ret
          int3

Where Zen1/2 flush the BTB entry using the instruction decoder trick
(test,movabs) Zen3/4 use BTB aliasing. SRSO adds a return sequence
(srso_safe_ret()) which forces the function return instruction to
speculate into a trap (UD2).  This RET will then mispredict and
execution will continue at the return site read from the top of the
stack.

Pick one of three options at boot (evey function can only ever return
once).

  [ bp: Fixup commit message uarch details and add them in a comment in
    the code too. Add a comment about the srso_select_mitigation()
    dependency on retbleed_select_mitigation(). Add moar ifdeffery for
    32-bit builds. Add a dummy srso_untrain_ret_alias() definition for
    32-bit alternatives needing the symbol. ]

Fixes: fb3bd914b3ec ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814121148.842775684@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool/x86: Fix SRSO mess</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T07:39:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T11:44:29+00:00</published>
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Objtool --rethunk does two things:

 - it collects all (tail) call's of __x86_return_thunk and places them
   into .return_sites. These are typically compiler generated, but
   RET also emits this same.

 - it fudges the validation of the __x86_return_thunk symbol; because
   this symbol is inside another instruction, it can't actually find
   the instruction pointed to by the symbol offset and gets upset.

Because these two things pertained to the same symbol, there was no
pressing need to separate these two separate things.

However, alas, along comes SRSO and more crazy things to deal with
appeared.

The SRSO patch itself added the following symbol names to identify as
rethunk:

  'srso_untrain_ret', 'srso_safe_ret' and '__ret'

Where '__ret' is the old retbleed return thunk, 'srso_safe_ret' is a
new similarly embedded return thunk, and 'srso_untrain_ret' is
completely unrelated to anything the above does (and was only included
because of that INT3 vs UD2 issue fixed previous).

Clear things up by adding a second category for the embedded instruction
thing.

Fixes: fb3bd914b3ec ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814121148.704502245@infradead.org
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Objtool --rethunk does two things:

 - it collects all (tail) call's of __x86_return_thunk and places them
   into .return_sites. These are typically compiler generated, but
   RET also emits this same.

 - it fudges the validation of the __x86_return_thunk symbol; because
   this symbol is inside another instruction, it can't actually find
   the instruction pointed to by the symbol offset and gets upset.

Because these two things pertained to the same symbol, there was no
pressing need to separate these two separate things.

However, alas, along comes SRSO and more crazy things to deal with
appeared.

The SRSO patch itself added the following symbol names to identify as
rethunk:

  'srso_untrain_ret', 'srso_safe_ret' and '__ret'

Where '__ret' is the old retbleed return thunk, 'srso_safe_ret' is a
new similarly embedded return thunk, and 'srso_untrain_ret' is
completely unrelated to anything the above does (and was only included
because of that INT3 vs UD2 issue fixed previous).

Clear things up by adding a second category for the embedded instruction
thing.

Fixes: fb3bd914b3ec ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814121148.704502245@infradead.org
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<entry>
<title>x86/retpoline,kprobes: Fix position of thunk sections with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG</title>
<updated>2023-08-14T09:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-11T09:19:51+00:00</published>
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The linker script arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S matches the thunk
sections ".text.__x86.*" from arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S as follows:

  .text {
    [...]
    TEXT_TEXT
    [...]
    __indirect_thunk_start = .;
    *(.text.__x86.*)
    __indirect_thunk_end = .;
    [...]
  }

Macro TEXT_TEXT references TEXT_MAIN which normally expands to only
".text". However, with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, TEXT_MAIN becomes
".text .text.[0-9a-zA-Z_]*" which wrongly matches also the thunk
sections. The output layout is then different than expected. For
instance, the currently defined range [__indirect_thunk_start,
__indirect_thunk_end] becomes empty.

Prevent the problem by using ".." as the first separator, for example,
".text..__x86.indirect_thunk". This pattern is utilized by other
explicit section names which start with one of the standard prefixes,
such as ".text" or ".data", and that need to be individually selected in
the linker script.

  [ nathan: Fix conflicts with SRSO and fold in fix issue brought up by
    Andrew Cooper in post-review:
    https://lore.kernel.org/20230803230323.1478869-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com ]

Fixes: dc5723b02e52 ("kbuild: add support for Clang LTO")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230711091952.27944-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com
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The linker script arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S matches the thunk
sections ".text.__x86.*" from arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S as follows:

  .text {
    [...]
    TEXT_TEXT
    [...]
    __indirect_thunk_start = .;
    *(.text.__x86.*)
    __indirect_thunk_end = .;
    [...]
  }

Macro TEXT_TEXT references TEXT_MAIN which normally expands to only
".text". However, with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, TEXT_MAIN becomes
".text .text.[0-9a-zA-Z_]*" which wrongly matches also the thunk
sections. The output layout is then different than expected. For
instance, the currently defined range [__indirect_thunk_start,
__indirect_thunk_end] becomes empty.

Prevent the problem by using ".." as the first separator, for example,
".text..__x86.indirect_thunk". This pattern is utilized by other
explicit section names which start with one of the standard prefixes,
such as ".text" or ".data", and that need to be individually selected in
the linker script.

  [ nathan: Fix conflicts with SRSO and fold in fix issue brought up by
    Andrew Cooper in post-review:
    https://lore.kernel.org/20230803230323.1478869-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com ]

Fixes: dc5723b02e52 ("kbuild: add support for Clang LTO")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230711091952.27944-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation</title>
<updated>2023-07-27T09:07:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-28T09:02:39+00:00</published>
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Add a mitigation for the speculative return address stack overflow
vulnerability found on AMD processors.

The mitigation works by ensuring all RET instructions speculate to
a controlled location, similar to how speculation is controlled in the
retpoline sequence.  To accomplish this, the __x86_return_thunk forces
the CPU to mispredict every function return using a 'safe return'
sequence.

To ensure the safety of this mitigation, the kernel must ensure that the
safe return sequence is itself free from attacker interference.  In Zen3
and Zen4, this is accomplished by creating a BTB alias between the
untraining function srso_untrain_ret_alias() and the safe return
function srso_safe_ret_alias() which results in evicting a potentially
poisoned BTB entry and using that safe one for all function returns.

In older Zen1 and Zen2, this is accomplished using a reinterpretation
technique similar to Retbleed one: srso_untrain_ret() and
srso_safe_ret().

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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Add a mitigation for the speculative return address stack overflow
vulnerability found on AMD processors.

The mitigation works by ensuring all RET instructions speculate to
a controlled location, similar to how speculation is controlled in the
retpoline sequence.  To accomplish this, the __x86_return_thunk forces
the CPU to mispredict every function return using a 'safe return'
sequence.

To ensure the safety of this mitigation, the kernel must ensure that the
safe return sequence is itself free from attacker interference.  In Zen3
and Zen4, this is accomplished by creating a BTB alias between the
untraining function srso_untrain_ret_alias() and the safe return
function srso_safe_ret_alias() which results in evicting a potentially
poisoned BTB entry and using that safe one for all function returns.

In older Zen1 and Zen2, this is accomplished using a reinterpretation
technique similar to Retbleed one: srso_untrain_ret() and
srso_safe_ret().

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: initialize all of struct elf</title>
<updated>2023-07-10T07:52:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Kubecek</name>
<email>mkubecek@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-29T10:05:05+00:00</published>
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Function elf_open_read() only zero initializes the initial part of
allocated struct elf; num_relocs member was recently added outside the
zeroed part so that it was left uninitialized, resulting in build failures
on some systems.

The partial initialization is a relic of times when struct elf had large
hash tables embedded. This is no longer the case so remove the trap and
initialize the whole structure instead.

Fixes: eb0481bbc4ce ("objtool: Fix reloc_hash size")
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230629102051.42E8360467@lion.mk-sys.cz
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Function elf_open_read() only zero initializes the initial part of
allocated struct elf; num_relocs member was recently added outside the
zeroed part so that it was left uninitialized, resulting in build failures
on some systems.

The partial initialization is a relic of times when struct elf had large
hash tables embedded. This is no longer the case so remove the trap and
initialize the whole structure instead.

Fixes: eb0481bbc4ce ("objtool: Fix reloc_hash size")
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230629102051.42E8360467@lion.mk-sys.cz
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Remove btrfs_assertfail() from the noreturn exceptions list</title>
<updated>2023-06-30T00:27:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-28T09:16:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=06697ca69bcaa76046be14684f513a89d2c7a240'/>
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The objtool merge in commit 6f612579be9d ("Merge tag 'objtool-core ...")
generated a semantic conflict that was not resolved.

The btrfs_assertfail() entry was removed from the noreturn list in
commit b831306b3b7d ("btrfs: print assertion failure report and stack
trace from the same line") because btrfs_assertfail() was changed from a
noreturn function into a macro.

The noreturn list was then moved from check.c to noreturns.h in commit
6245ce4ab670 ("objtool: Move noreturn function list to separate file"),
and should be removed from that post-merge as well.

Do it explicitly.

Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The objtool merge in commit 6f612579be9d ("Merge tag 'objtool-core ...")
generated a semantic conflict that was not resolved.

The btrfs_assertfail() entry was removed from the noreturn list in
commit b831306b3b7d ("btrfs: print assertion failure report and stack
trace from the same line") because btrfs_assertfail() was changed from a
noreturn function into a macro.

The noreturn list was then moved from check.c to noreturns.h in commit
6245ce4ab670 ("objtool: Move noreturn function list to separate file"),
and should be removed from that post-merge as well.

Do it explicitly.

Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'objtool-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-06-27T22:05:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-06-27T22:05:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6f612579be9d0ff527ca2e517e10bfaf08cc1860'/>
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molar:
 "Build footprint &amp; performance improvements:

   - Reduce memory usage with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y

     In the worst case of an allyesconfig+CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y kernel,
     DWARF creates almost 200 million relocations, ballooning objtool's
     peak heap usage to 53GB. These patches reduce that to 25GB.

     On a distro-type kernel with kernel IBT enabled, they reduce
     objtool's peak heap usage from 4.2GB to 2.8GB.

     These changes also improve the runtime significantly.

  Debuggability improvements:

   - Add the unwind_debug command-line option, for more extend unwinding
     debugging output
   - Limit unreachable warnings to once per function
   - Add verbose option for disassembling affected functions
   - Include backtrace in verbose mode
   - Detect missing __noreturn annotations
   - Ignore exc_double_fault() __noreturn warnings
   - Remove superfluous global_noreturns entries
   - Move noreturn function list to separate file
   - Add __kunit_abort() to noreturns

  Unwinder improvements:

   - Allow stack operations in UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED regions
   - drm/vmwgfx: Add unwind hints around RBP clobber

  Cleanups:

   - Move the x86 entry thunk restore code into thunk functions
   - x86/unwind/orc: Use swap() instead of open coding it
   - Remove unnecessary/unused variables

  Fixes for modern stack canary handling"

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  x86/orc: Make the is_callthunk() definition depend on CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y
  objtool: Skip reading DWARF section data
  objtool: Free insns when done
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;rel[a]
  objtool: Shrink elf hash nodes
  objtool: Shrink reloc-&gt;sym_reloc_entry
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;jump_table_start
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;addend
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;type
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;offset
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;idx
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;list
  objtool: Allocate relocs in advance for new rela sections
  objtool: Add for_each_reloc()
  objtool: Don't free memory in elf_close()
  objtool: Keep GElf_Rel[a] structs synced
  objtool: Add elf_create_section_pair()
  objtool: Add mark_sec_changed()
  objtool: Fix reloc_hash size
  objtool: Consolidate rel/rela handling
  ...
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molar:
 "Build footprint &amp; performance improvements:

   - Reduce memory usage with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y

     In the worst case of an allyesconfig+CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y kernel,
     DWARF creates almost 200 million relocations, ballooning objtool's
     peak heap usage to 53GB. These patches reduce that to 25GB.

     On a distro-type kernel with kernel IBT enabled, they reduce
     objtool's peak heap usage from 4.2GB to 2.8GB.

     These changes also improve the runtime significantly.

  Debuggability improvements:

   - Add the unwind_debug command-line option, for more extend unwinding
     debugging output
   - Limit unreachable warnings to once per function
   - Add verbose option for disassembling affected functions
   - Include backtrace in verbose mode
   - Detect missing __noreturn annotations
   - Ignore exc_double_fault() __noreturn warnings
   - Remove superfluous global_noreturns entries
   - Move noreturn function list to separate file
   - Add __kunit_abort() to noreturns

  Unwinder improvements:

   - Allow stack operations in UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED regions
   - drm/vmwgfx: Add unwind hints around RBP clobber

  Cleanups:

   - Move the x86 entry thunk restore code into thunk functions
   - x86/unwind/orc: Use swap() instead of open coding it
   - Remove unnecessary/unused variables

  Fixes for modern stack canary handling"

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  x86/orc: Make the is_callthunk() definition depend on CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y
  objtool: Skip reading DWARF section data
  objtool: Free insns when done
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;rel[a]
  objtool: Shrink elf hash nodes
  objtool: Shrink reloc-&gt;sym_reloc_entry
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;jump_table_start
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;addend
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;type
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;offset
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;idx
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;list
  objtool: Allocate relocs in advance for new rela sections
  objtool: Add for_each_reloc()
  objtool: Don't free memory in elf_close()
  objtool: Keep GElf_Rel[a] structs synced
  objtool: Add elf_create_section_pair()
  objtool: Add mark_sec_changed()
  objtool: Fix reloc_hash size
  objtool: Consolidate rel/rela handling
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-6.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest</title>
<updated>2023-06-27T18:12:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T18:12:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9ba92dc1de0a25e72b0cddb30386bf611e6cb46e'/>
<id>9ba92dc1de0a25e72b0cddb30386bf611e6cb46e</id>
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Pull KUnit updates from Shuah Khan:

 - kunit_add_action() API to defer a call until test exit

 - Update document to add kunit_add_action() usage notes

 - Changes to always run cleanup from a test kthread

 - Documentation updates to clarify cleanup usage (assertions should not
   be used in cleanup)

 - Documentation update to clearly indicate that exit functions should
   run even if init fails

 - Several fixes and enhancements to existing tests

* tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-6.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  MAINTAINERS: Add source tree entry for kunit
  Documentation: kunit: Rename references to kunit_abort()
  kunit: Move kunit_abort() call out of kunit_do_failed_assertion()
  kunit: Fix obsolete name in documentation headers (func-&gt;action)
  Documentation: Kunit: add MODULE_LICENSE to sample code
  kunit: Update kunit_print_ok_not_ok function
  kunit: Fix reporting of the skipped parameterized tests
  kunit/test: Add example test showing parameterized testing
  Documentation: kunit: Add usage notes for kunit_add_action()
  kunit: kmalloc_array: Use kunit_add_action()
  kunit: executor_test: Use kunit_add_action()
  kunit: Add kunit_add_action() to defer a call until test exit
  kunit: example: Provide example exit functions
  Documentation: kunit: Warn that exit functions run even if init fails
  Documentation: kunit: Note that assertions should not be used in cleanup
  kunit: Always run cleanup from a test kthread
  Documentation: kunit: Modular tests should not depend on KUNIT=y
  kunit: tool: undo type subscripts for subprocess.Popen
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Pull KUnit updates from Shuah Khan:

 - kunit_add_action() API to defer a call until test exit

 - Update document to add kunit_add_action() usage notes

 - Changes to always run cleanup from a test kthread

 - Documentation updates to clarify cleanup usage (assertions should not
   be used in cleanup)

 - Documentation update to clearly indicate that exit functions should
   run even if init fails

 - Several fixes and enhancements to existing tests

* tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-6.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  MAINTAINERS: Add source tree entry for kunit
  Documentation: kunit: Rename references to kunit_abort()
  kunit: Move kunit_abort() call out of kunit_do_failed_assertion()
  kunit: Fix obsolete name in documentation headers (func-&gt;action)
  Documentation: Kunit: add MODULE_LICENSE to sample code
  kunit: Update kunit_print_ok_not_ok function
  kunit: Fix reporting of the skipped parameterized tests
  kunit/test: Add example test showing parameterized testing
  Documentation: kunit: Add usage notes for kunit_add_action()
  kunit: kmalloc_array: Use kunit_add_action()
  kunit: executor_test: Use kunit_add_action()
  kunit: Add kunit_add_action() to defer a call until test exit
  kunit: example: Provide example exit functions
  Documentation: kunit: Warn that exit functions run even if init fails
  Documentation: kunit: Note that assertions should not be used in cleanup
  kunit: Always run cleanup from a test kthread
  Documentation: kunit: Modular tests should not depend on KUNIT=y
  kunit: tool: undo type subscripts for subprocess.Popen
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