objtool: Find unused ENDBR instructions

Find all ENDBR instructions which are never referenced and stick them in a section such that the kernel can poison them, sealing the functions from ever being an indirect call target. This removes about 1-in-4 ENDBR instructions.

Peter Zijlstra committed 4 years ago

Commit 89bc8531 parent 08f87a94 files · +78 −2Browse files

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tools/objtool/include/objtool/objtool.h+1−0

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ struct objtool_file { · 25 unmodified lines
26	struct list_head retpoline_call_list;	26	struct list_head retpoline_call_list;
27	struct list_head static_call_list;	27	struct list_head static_call_list;
28	struct list_head mcount_loc_list;	28	struct list_head mcount_loc_list;
		29	struct list_head endbr_list;
29	bool ignore_unreachables, c_file, hints, rodata;	30	bool ignore_unreachables, c_file, hints, rodata;
30		31
31	unsigned int nr_endbr;	32	unsigned int nr_endbr;