From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/16] objtool: vmlinux.o and noinstr validation
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:44:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200312174420.gsc35hklw3p7bnhl@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200312162337.GU12561@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 05:23:37PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So one of the problem i've ran into while playing with this and Thomas'
> patches is that it is 'difficult' to deal with indirect function calls.
>
> objtool basically gives up instantly.
>
> I know smatch has passes were it looks for function pointer assignments
> and carries that forward into it's callchain generation. Doing something
> like that for objtool is going to be 'fun'...
Yeah, it would have to keep track of register and memory values, even
across function calls. Which is basically crossing over into emulation
territory. Which objtool wasn't really built for.
--
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-12 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-12 13:41 [RFC][PATCH 00/16] objtool: vmlinux.o and noinstr validation Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 01/16] objtool: Introduce validate_return() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 02/16] objtool: Rename func_for_each_insn() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 03/16] objtool: Rename func_for_each_insn_all() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 04/16] objtool: Annotate identity_mapped() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-13 14:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-15 15:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-13 16:46 ` Brian Gerst
2020-03-13 17:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 05/16] objtool: Optimize find_symbol_by_index() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-15 16:09 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-15 16:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-15 16:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-17 11:55 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-03-17 14:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/16] objtool: Add a statistics mode Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-15 16:20 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/16] objtool: Optimize find_section_by_index() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-15 16:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/16] Optimize find_section_by_name() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-15 16:25 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-17 12:22 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-03-17 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/16] objtool: Optimize find_symbol_*() and read_symbols() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-15 15:48 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-15 16:41 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/16] objtool: Resize insn_hash Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/16] objtool: Optimize find_symbol_by_name() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 12/16] objtool: Optimize read_sections() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-15 16:53 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 13/16] objtool: Delete cleanup() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 14/16] objtool: Optimize find_rela_by_dest_range() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 15/16] objtool: Implement noinstr validation Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-15 18:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-16 13:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-16 16:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-16 16:21 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-16 16:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-16 16:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-16 19:20 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-03-12 13:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 16/16] objtool: Optimize !vmlinux.o again Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 21:57 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 " Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 16:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 00/16] objtool: vmlinux.o and noinstr validation Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-12 17:44 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2020-03-12 22:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-17 0:56 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-03-17 9:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-17 14:20 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-03-17 12:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-15 18:12 ` Josh Poimboeuf
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