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Add -mmanual-endbr switch to allow manual selection of control-flow protection
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Authored by gftg on Jan 27 2022, 4:15 AM.

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Summary

GCC has plans [1] to add a new switch that enables finer-grained control
of the insertion of CET stuff in generated code. This patch duplicates
their implementation within LLVM, in the hope that it can also be used
by Xen maintainers.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102953

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With -fcf-protection=branch, clang automatically adds control-flow
protection to indirect calls and jumps. On X86, this translates to ENDBR
instructions being added to the prologues of functions.

This patch adds a new switch, '-mmanual-endbr', which tells the compiler
that, even though -fcf-protection is in use, functions should not get
the instrumentation automatically. Instead, it allows users to manually
add the new attribute, 'cf_check', to functions that require it.

Depends on D118052.

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