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This patch implements FTRACE_WITH_REGS for arm64, which allows a traced
function's arguments (and some other registers) to be captured into a
struct pt_regs, allowing these to be inspected and/or modified. This is
a building block for live-patching, where a function's arguments may be
forwarded to another function. This is also necessary to enable ftrace
and in-kernel pointer authentication at the same time, as it allows the
LR value to be captured and adjusted prior to signing.
Using GCC's -fpatchable-function-entry=N option, we can have the
compiler insert a configurable number of NOPs between the function entry
point and the usual prologue. This also ensures functions are AAPCS
compliant (e.g. disabling inter-procedural register allocation).
For example, with -fpatchable-function-entry=2, GCC 8.1.0 compiles the
following:
| unsigned long bar(void);
|
| unsigned long foo(void)
| {
| return bar() + 1;
| }
... to:
| <foo>:
| nop
| nop
| stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]!
| mov x29, sp
| bl 0 <bar>
| add x0, x0, #0x1
| ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16
| ret
This patch builds the kernel with -fpatchable-function-entry=2,
prefixing each function with two NOPs. To trace a function, we replace
these NOPs with a sequence that saves the LR into a GPR, then calls an
ftrace entry assembly function which saves this and other relevant
registers:
| mov x9, x30
| bl <ftrace-entry>
Since patchable functions are AAPCS compliant (and the kernel does not
use x18 as a platform register), x9-x18 can be safely clobbered in the
patched sequence and the ftrace entry code.
There are now two ftrace entry functions, ftrace_regs_entry (which saves
all GPRs), and ftrace_entry (which saves the bare minimum). A PLT is
allocated for each within modules.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
[Mark: rework asm, comments, PLTs, initialization, commit message]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Tested-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Tested-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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