If this memcmp() is not inlined then PVH early boot code can call
into KASAN-instrumented memcmp() which results in unbootable VMs:
pvh_start_xen
xen_prepare_pvh
xen_cpuid_base
hypervisor_cpuid_base
memcmp
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Message-ID: <
20240802154253.482658-2-adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
for_each_possible_hypervisor_cpuid_base(base) {
cpuid(base, &eax, &signature[0], &signature[1], &signature[2]);
- if (!memcmp(sig, signature, 12) &&
+ /*
+ * This must not compile to "call memcmp" because it's called
+ * from PVH early boot code before instrumentation is set up
+ * and memcmp() itself may be instrumented.
+ */
+ if (!__builtin_memcmp(sig, signature, 12) &&
(leaves == 0 || ((eax - base) >= leaves)))
return base;
}