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.
When -mmanual-endbr is set, llvm refrains from automatically adding
ENDBR instructions to functions' prologues, which would have been
automatically added by -fcf-protection=branch. Although this works
correctly, missing ENDBR instructions where they are actually needed
could lead to broken binaries, which would fail only in running time.
Thus, when the backend detects that a function could be reached from an
indirect jump (e.g. when it has its address taken, or belongs to the
exported set of functions), a diagnostic warning is emitted, which
should help developers find missing occurrences of the 'cf_check'
attribute.
Depends on D118052.
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