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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/jump_label_ratelimit.h b/include/linux/jump_label_ratelimit.h
index 113788389b3d..089f70f83e97 100644
--- a/include/linux/jump_label_ratelimit.h
+++ b/include/linux/jump_label_ratelimit.h
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@ struct static_key_deferred {
 };
 static inline void static_key_slow_dec_deferred(struct static_key_deferred *key)
 {
+	STATIC_KEY_CHECK_USE();
 	static_key_slow_dec(&key->key);
 }
 static inline void
 jump_label_rate_limit(struct static_key_deferred *key,
 		unsigned long rl)
 {
+	STATIC_KEY_CHECK_USE();
 }
 #endif	/* HAVE_JUMP_LABEL */
 #endif	/* _LINUX_JUMP_LABEL_RATELIMIT_H */