From: Paweł Anikiel panikiel@google.com
[ Upstream commit 5595c31c370957aabe739ac3996aedba8267603f ]
Calling core::fmt::write() from rust code while FineIBT is enabled results in a kernel panic:
[ 4614.199779] kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/cet.c:132! [ 4614.205343] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 4614.211781] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 6057 Comm: dmabuf_dump Tainted: G U O 6.12.17-android16-0-g6ab38c534a43 #1 9da040f27673ec3945e23b998a0f8bd64c846599 [ 4614.227832] Tainted: [U]=USER, [O]=OOT_MODULE [ 4614.241247] RIP: 0010:do_kernel_cp_fault+0xea/0xf0 ... [ 4614.398144] RIP: 0010:_RNvXs5_NtNtNtCs3o2tGsuHyou_4core3fmt3num3impyNtB9_7Display3fmt+0x0/0x20 [ 4614.407792] Code: 48 f7 df 48 0f 48 f9 48 89 f2 89 c6 5d e9 18 fd ff ff 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 81 ea 14 61 af 2c 74 03 0f 0b 90 <66> 0f 1f 00 55 48 89 e5 48 89 f2 48 8b 3f be 01 00 00 00 5d e9 e7 [ 4614.428775] RSP: 0018:ffffb95acfa4ba68 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4614.434609] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000010 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 4614.442587] RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: ffffb95acfa4ba70 RDI: ffffb95acfa4bc88 [ 4614.450557] RBP: ffffb95acfa4bae0 R08: ffff0a00ffffff05 R09: 0000000000000070 [ 4614.458527] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffffab67eaf0 R12: ffffb95acfa4bcc8 [ 4614.466493] R13: ffffffffac5d50f0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 4614.474473] ? __cfi__RNvXs5_NtNtNtCs3o2tGsuHyou_4core3fmt3num3impyNtB9_7Display3fmt+0x10/0x10 [ 4614.484118] ? _RNvNtCs3o2tGsuHyou_4core3fmt5write+0x1d2/0x250
This happens because core::fmt::write() calls core::fmt::rt::Argument::fmt(), which currently has CFI disabled:
library/core/src/fmt/rt.rs: 171 // FIXME: Transmuting formatter in new and indirectly branching to/calling 172 // it here is an explicit CFI violation. 173 #[allow(inline_no_sanitize)] 174 #[no_sanitize(cfi, kcfi)] 175 #[inline] 176 pub(super) unsafe fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result {
This causes a Control Protection exception, because FineIBT has sealed off the original function's endbr64.
This makes rust currently incompatible with FineIBT. Add a Kconfig dependency that prevents FineIBT from getting turned on by default if rust is enabled.
[ Rust 1.88.0 (scheduled for 2025-06-26) should have this fixed [1], and thus we relaxed the condition with Rust >= 1.88.
When `objtool` lands checking for this with e.g. [2], the plan is to ideally run that in upstream Rust's CI to prevent regressions early [3], since we do not control `core`'s source code.
Alice tested the Rust PR backported to an older compiler.
Peter would like that Rust provides a stable `core` which can be pulled into the kernel: "Relying on that much out of tree code is 'unfortunate'".
- Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Paweł Anikiel panikiel@google.com Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl aliceryhl@google.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/139632 [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250410154556.GB9003@noisy.programmi... [2] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/139632#issuecomment-2801950873 [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410115420.366349-1-panikiel@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/att0-CANiq72kjDM0cKALVy4POEzhfdT4nO7tqz0Pm7xM+3=_0... [ Reduced splat. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index aeb95b6e55369..fec9c72ad8d90 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -2430,6 +2430,7 @@ config STRICT_SIGALTSTACK_SIZE config CFI_AUTO_DEFAULT bool "Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time" depends on FINEIBT + depends on !RUST || RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800 default y help Attempt to use FineIBT by default at boot time. If enabled,