summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2026-03-31 13:04:23 +0200
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2026-04-01 15:29:59 +0100
commit54ac9ff8f1196afc49d644a1625e0af1c9fcf7f5 (patch)
tree58b6db80c4eba930c883cb655e5d27397453cad2 /arch
parent8c6e9b60f5c7985a9fe41320556a92d7a33451df (diff)
arm64: Use static call trampolines when kCFI is enabled
Implement arm64 support for the 'unoptimized' static call variety, which routes all calls through a trampoline that performs a tail call to the chosen function, and wire it up for use when kCFI is enabled. This works around an issue with kCFI and generic static calls, where the prototypes of default handlers such as __static_call_nop() and __static_call_ret0() don't match the expected prototype of the call site, resulting in kCFI false positives [0]. Since static call targets may be located in modules loaded out of direct branching range, this needs an ADRP/LDR pair to load the branch target into R16 and a branch-to-register (BR) instruction to perform an indirect call. Unlike on x86, there is no pressing need on arm64 to avoid indirect calls at all cost, but hiding it from the compiler as is done here does have some benefits: - the literal is located in .rodata, which gives us the same robustness advantage that code patching does; - no D-cache pollution from fetching hash values from .text sections. From an execution speed PoV, this is unlikely to make any difference at all. Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com> Reported-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260311225822.1565895-1-cmllamas@google.com/ [0] Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/static_call.h31
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/static_call.c23
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S1
5 files changed, 57 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 38dba5f7e4d2..9ea19b74b6c3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ config ARM64
select HAVE_RSEQ
select HAVE_RUST if RUSTC_SUPPORTS_ARM64
select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
+ select HAVE_STATIC_CALL if CFI
select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
select HAVE_KPROBES
select HAVE_KRETPROBES
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/static_call.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/static_call.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..30f6a046de4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/static_call.h
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_STATIC_CALL_H
+#define _ASM_STATIC_CALL_H
+
+#define __ARCH_DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP(name, target) \
+ asm(" .pushsection .static_call.text, \"ax\" \n" \
+ " .align 4 \n" \
+ " .globl " name " \n" \
+ name ": \n" \
+ " hint 34 /* BTI C */ \n" \
+ " adrp x16, 1f \n" \
+ " ldr x16, [x16, :lo12:1f] \n" \
+ " br x16 \n" \
+ " .type " name ", %function \n" \
+ " .size " name ", . - " name " \n" \
+ " .popsection \n" \
+ " .pushsection .rodata, \"a\" \n" \
+ " .align 3 \n" \
+ "1: .quad " target " \n" \
+ " .popsection \n")
+
+#define ARCH_DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP(name, func) \
+ __ARCH_DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP(STATIC_CALL_TRAMP_STR(name), #func)
+
+#define ARCH_DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_NULL_TRAMP(name) \
+ ARCH_DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP(name, __static_call_return0)
+
+#define ARCH_DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_RET0_TRAMP(name) \
+ ARCH_DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP(name, __static_call_return0)
+
+#endif /* _ASM_STATIC_CALL_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
index 76f32e424065..fe627100d199 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES) += module.o module-plts.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) += perf_regs.o perf_callchain.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF) += watchdog_hld.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT) += hw_breakpoint.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL) += static_call.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_PM) += sleep.o suspend.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KGDB) += kgdb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EFI) += efi.o efi-rt-wrapper.o
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/static_call.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/static_call.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8b3a19e10871
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/static_call.c
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <linux/static_call.h>
+#include <linux/memory.h>
+#include <asm/text-patching.h>
+
+void arch_static_call_transform(void *site, void *tramp, void *func, bool tail)
+{
+ u64 literal;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (!func)
+ func = __static_call_return0;
+
+ /* decode the instructions to discover the literal address */
+ literal = ALIGN_DOWN((u64)tramp + 4, SZ_4K) +
+ aarch64_insn_adrp_get_offset(le32_to_cpup(tramp + 4)) +
+ 8 * aarch64_insn_decode_immediate(AARCH64_INSN_IMM_12,
+ le32_to_cpup(tramp + 8));
+
+ ret = aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64((void *)literal, (u64)func);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arch_static_call_transform);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index ad6133b89e7a..af9e81f3818a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ SECTIONS
LOCK_TEXT
KPROBES_TEXT
HYPERVISOR_TEXT
+ STATIC_CALL_TEXT
*(.gnu.warning)
}