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2026-05-14	slab: improve KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM randomness	Marco Elver
	When using CONFIG_KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM, _RET_IP_ was previously used to identify the allocation site. _RET_IP_, however, evaluates to the caller's parent's instruction pointer rather than the actual allocation site; this would lead to collisions where a function performs multiple allocations. With the generalization to kmalloc_token_t, we now generate the token at the outermost macro, and using _THIS_IP_ would fix this for all cases. Unfortunately, the generic implementation of _THIS_IP_ relies on taking the address of a local label, which is considered broken by both GCC [1] and Clang [2] because label addresses are only expected to be used with computed gotos. While the generic version more or less works today, it is known to be brittle. For example, Clang -O2 always returns 1 when this function is inlined: static inline unsigned long get_ip(void) { return ({ __label__ __here; __here: (unsigned long)&&__here; }); } To provide a reliable unique identifier without breaking architectures relying on the generic _THIS_IP_, introduce _CODE_LOCATION_: it resolves to _THIS_IP_ where architectures provide a safe implementation, and falls back to a zero-cost static marker where _THIS_IP_ is broken. Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120071 [1] Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/138272 [2] Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511200136.3201646-2-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2023-09-12	x86/ibt: Suppress spurious ENDBR	Peter Zijlstra
	It was reported that under certain circumstances GCC emits ENDBR instructions for _THIS_IP_ usage. Specifically, when it appears at the start of a basic block -- but not elsewhere. Since _THIS_IP_ is never used for control flow, these ENDBR instructions are completely superfluous. Override the _THIS_IP_ definition for x86_64 to avoid this. Less ENDBR instructions is better. Fixes: 156ff4a544ae ("x86/ibt: Base IBT bits") Reported-by: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230802110323.016197440@infradead.org
2021-11-09	kernel.h: split out instruction pointer accessors	Stephen Rothwell
	bottom_half.h needs _THIS_IP_ to be standalone, so split that and _RET_IP_ out from kernel.h into the new instruction_pointer.h. kernel.h directly needs them, so include it there and replace the include of kernel.h with this new file in bottom_half.h. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211028161248.45232-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>