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riscv: Implement _THIS_IP_ using inline asm
authorMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
Sun, 7 Jun 2026 02:17:53 +0000 (20:17 -0600)
committerPaul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Sun, 7 Jun 2026 02:17:53 +0000 (20:17 -0600)
Both GCC [1] and Clang [2] consider the generic version of _THIS_IP_ to
be broken:

        #define _THIS_IP_  ({ __label__ __here; __here: (unsigned long)&&__here; })

In particular, the address of a label is only expected to be used with a
computed goto.

While the generic version more or less works today, it is known to be
brittle and may break with current and future optimizations. For
example, Clang -O2 always returns 1 when this function is inlined:

        static inline unsigned long get_ip(void)
        { return ({ __label__ __here; __here: (unsigned long)&&__here; }); }

Fix it by overriding _THIS_IP_ in <asm/linkage.h> (which is included by
<linux/instruction_pointer.h>) using an architecture-specific inline asm
version. Additionally, avoiding taking the address of a label prevents
compilers from emitting spurious indirect branch targets (e.g. ENDBR or
BTI) under control-flow integrity schemes.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120071
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/138272
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521000436.3931067-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
arch/riscv/include/asm/linkage.h

index 9e88ba23cd2bc98cdd3d1aea46b20a819e5cd65d..7e0210ef4eb4d6dafbc18b4a44a7a38b38b326e9 100644 (file)
@@ -9,4 +9,6 @@
 #define __ALIGN                .balign 4
 #define __ALIGN_STR    ".balign 4"
 
+#define _THIS_IP_ ({ unsigned long __ip; asm volatile("auipc %0, 0" : "=r" (__ip)); __ip; })
+
 #endif /* _ASM_RISCV_LINKAGE_H */