2021-06-24 10:51:55

by Juergen Gross

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/24] x86/xen: Mark cpu_bringup_and_idle() as dead_end_function

On 24.06.21 11:41, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> The asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle() function is required to push the return
> value on the stack in order to make ORC happy, but the only reason
> objtool doesn't complain is because of a happy accident.
>
> The thing is that asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle() doesn't return, so
> validate_branch() never terminates and falls through to the next
> function, which in the normal case is the hypercall_page. And that, as
> it happens, is 4095 NOPs and a RET.
>
> Make asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle() terminate on it's own, by making the
> function it calls as a dead-end. This way we no longer rely on what
> code happens to come after.
>
> Fixes: c3881eb58d56 ("x86/xen: Make the secondary CPU idle tasks reliable")
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>


Juergen


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