From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F703C433F5 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 03:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229683AbiJKDlj (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2022 23:41:39 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48148 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229502AbiJKDlg (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2022 23:41:36 -0400 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com (szxga01-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.187]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 424DC31DD5 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canpemm500002.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.53]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4MmhML6jfTzpVWh; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:38:22 +0800 (CST) Received: from huawei.com (10.175.104.170) by canpemm500002.china.huawei.com (7.192.104.244) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.31; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:41:32 +0800 From: Miaohe Lin To: , , , CC: , , , Subject: [PATCH v2] x86/alternative: fix undefined reference to __ibt_endbr_seal[_end] Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:38:03 +0800 Message-ID: <20221011113803.956808-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.23.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Originating-IP: [10.175.104.170] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems705-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.182) To canpemm500002.china.huawei.com (7.192.104.244) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Due to the explicit 'noinline' GCC-7.3 is not able to optimize away the argument setup of: apply_ibt_endbr(__ibt_endbr_seal, __ibt_enbr_seal_end); even when X86_KERNEL_IBT=n and the function is an empty stub which leads to link errors due to missing __ibt_endbr_seal* symbols like below: ld: arch/x86/kernel/alternative.o: in function `alternative_instructions': alternative.c:(.init.text+0x15d): undefined reference to `__ibt_endbr_seal_end' ld: alternative.c:(.init.text+0x164): undefined reference to `__ibt_endbr_seal' Remove explicit 'noinline' to help gcc optimize them away. [Thanks Peter Zijlstra for tweaking the commit log.] Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin --- arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index 5cadcea035e0..beaf9fc44e2f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_ibt_endbr(s32 *start, s32 *end) #else -void __init_or_module noinline apply_ibt_endbr(s32 *start, s32 *end) { } +void __init_or_module apply_ibt_endbr(s32 *start, s32 *end) { } #endif /* CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT */ -- 2.23.0