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@ 2020-07-08 12:08 Szabolcs Nagy
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=f97789341dfddb8cf05350f6de5a4a05e4b79a09

commit f97789341dfddb8cf05350f6de5a4a05e4b79a09
Author: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 1 10:31:41 2020 +0100

    aarch64: fix swapcontext for BTI
    
    setcontext returns to the specified context via an indirect jump,
    so there should be a BTI j.
    
    In case of getcontext (and all other returns_twice functions) the
    compiler adds BTI j at the call site, but swapcontext is a normal
    c call that is currently not handled specially by the compiler.
    
    So we change swapcontext such that the saved context returns to a
    local address that has BTI j and then swapcontext returns to the
    caller via a normal RET. For this we save the original return
    address in the slot for x1 of the context because x1 need not be
    preserved by swapcontext but it is restored when the context saved
    by swapcontext is resumed.
    
    The alternative fix (which is done on x86) would make swapcontext
    special in the compiler so BTI j is emitted at call sites, on
    x86 there is an indirect_return attribute for this, on AArch64
    we would have to use returns_twice. It was decided against because
    such fix may need user code updates: the attribute has to be added
    when swapcontext is called via a function pointer and it breaks
    always_inline functions with swapcontext.
    
    Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

Diff:
---
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/swapcontext.S | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/swapcontext.S b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/swapcontext.S
index d30c543e6f..f8c66f0ef0 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/swapcontext.S
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/swapcontext.S
@@ -28,8 +28,12 @@
 	.text
 ENTRY(__swapcontext)
 	DELOUSE (0)
-	/* Set the value returned when swapcontext() returns in this context. */
-	str	xzr,      [x0, oX0 +  0 * SZREG]
+	/* Set the value returned when swapcontext() returns in this context.
+	   And set up x1 to become the return address of the caller, so we
+	   can return there with a normal RET instead of an indirect jump.  */
+	stp	xzr, x30, [x0, oX0 +  0 * SZREG]
+	/* Arrange the oucp context to return to 2f.  */
+	adr	x30, 2f
 
 	stp	x18, x19, [x0, oX0 + 18 * SZREG]
 	stp	x20, x21, [x0, oX0 + 20 * SZREG]
@@ -97,5 +101,11 @@ ENTRY(__swapcontext)
 
 1:
 	b	C_SYMBOL_NAME(__syscall_error)
+2:
+	/* The oucp context is restored here via an indirect branch,
+	   x1 must be restored too which has the real return address.  */
+	BTI_J
+	mov	x30, x1
+	RET
 PSEUDO_END (__swapcontext)
 weak_alias (__swapcontext, swapcontext)


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