Re: [PATCH] objtool: Detect non-relocated text references

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 12:28:47AM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 08:54:16AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 at 02:31, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > However there are some "lea xxx(%rip)" cases which don't use relocations
> > > because they're referencing code in the same translation unit.
> > 
> > input section
> 
> "in the same translation unit and section" ?
> 
> > > However if we enable -fpie, the compiler would start generating them and
> > > there would definitely be bugs in the IBT sealing.
> > >
> > 
> > -fpie is guaranteed to break things, but even without it, Clang may
> > issue RIP-relative LEA instructions (or LLD when it performs
> > relaxations), so this is definitely worth addressing even if we don't
> > enable -fpie.
> 
> I haven't seen this with Clang either.  Also, objtool runs before the
> linker so LLD relaxations shouldn't matter.

LTO might have a few more cases, the input sections are bigger there.
But even there we run before the final link stage.