static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called

Usage of the static key primitives to toggle a branch must not be used
before jump_label_init() is called from init/main.c. jump_label_init
reorganizes and wires up the jump_entries so usage before that could
have unforeseen consequences.

Following primitives are now checked for correct use:
* static_key_slow_inc
* static_key_slow_dec
* static_key_slow_dec_deferred
* jump_label_rate_limit

The x86 architecture already checks this by testing if the default_nop
was already replaced with an optimal nop or with a branch instruction. It
will panic then. Other architectures don't check for this.

Because we need to relax this check for the x86 arch to allow code to
transition from default_nop to the enabled state and other architectures
did not check for this at all this patch introduces checking on the
static_key primitives in a non-arch dependent manner.

All checked functions are considered slow-path so the additional check
does no harm to performance.

The warnings are best observed with earlyprintk.

Based on a patch from Andi Kleen.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index af310af..27bbec1a 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -136,6 +136,13 @@ static char *execute_command;
 static char *ramdisk_execute_command;
 
 /*
+ * Used to generate warnings if static_key manipulation functions are used
+ * before jump_label_init is called.
+ */
+bool static_key_initialized __read_mostly = false;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(static_key_initialized);
+
+/*
  * If set, this is an indication to the drivers that reset the underlying
  * device before going ahead with the initialization otherwise driver might
  * rely on the BIOS and skip the reset operation.