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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> | 2025-04-08 07:02:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2025-04-08 07:14:11 +0000 |
| commit | fe1042b1ef79e4d5df33d5c0f0ce936493714eec (patch) | |
| tree | 30710f1b8faf6c8849840d13f1c88f0f68d42f9f /rust/helpers/platform.c | |
| parent | objtool: Fix INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH handling in validate_unret() (diff) | |
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objtool: Split INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH into INSN_SYSCALL and INSN_SYSRET
INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH is ambiguous. It can represent both call semantics
(SYSCALL, SYSENTER) and return semantics (SYSRET, IRET, RETS, RETU).
Those differ significantly: calls preserve control flow whereas returns
terminate it.
Objtool uses an arbitrary rule for INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH that almost works
by accident: if in a function, keep going; otherwise stop. It should
instead be based on the semantics of the underlying instruction.
In preparation for improving that, split INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH into
INSN_SYCALL and INSN_SYSRET.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/19a76c74d2c051d3bc9a775823cafc65ad267a7a.1744095216.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
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