x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
For CONFIG_RETHUNK kernels, objtool annotates all the function return
sites so they can be patched during boot. By design, after
apply_returns() is called, all tail-calls to the compiler-generated
default return thunk (__x86_return_thunk) should be patched out and
replaced with whatever's needed for any mitigations (or lack thereof).
The commit
4461438a8405 ("x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime")
adds a runtime check and a WARN_ONCE() if the default return thunk ever
gets executed after alternatives have been applied. This warning is
a sanity check to make sure objtool and apply_returns() are doing their
job.
As Nathan reported, that check found something:
Unpatched return thunk in use. This should not happen!
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c:2856 __warn_thunk+0x27/0x40
RIP: 0010:__warn_thunk+0x27/0x40
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_regs
? __warn
? __warn_thunk
? report_bug
? console_unlock
? handle_bug
? exc_invalid_op
? asm_exc_invalid_op
? ia32_binfmt_init
? __warn_thunk
warn_thunk_thunk
do_one_initcall
kernel_init_freeable
? __pfx_kernel_init
kernel_init
ret_from_fork
? __pfx_kernel_init
ret_from_fork_asm
</TASK>
Boris debugged to find that the unpatched return site was in
init_vdso_image_64(), and its translation unit wasn't being analyzed by
objtool, so it never got annotated. So it got ignored by
apply_returns().
This is only a minor issue, as this function is only called during boot.
Still, objtool needs full visibility to the kernel. Fix it by enabling
objtool on vdso-image-{32,64}.o.
Note this problem can only be seen with !CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT, as that
requires objtool to run individually on all translation units rather on
vmlinux.o.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]