arm64: avoid redundant PAC stripping in __builtin_return_address()
In old versions of GCC and Clang, __builtin_return_address() did not strip the PAC. This was not the behaviour we desired, and so we wrapped this with code to strip the PAC in commit: 689eae42 ("arm64: mask PAC bits of __builtin_return_address") Since then, both GCC and Clang decided that __builtin_return_address() *should* strip the PAC, and the existing behaviour was a bug. GCC was fixed in 11.1.0, with those fixes backported to 10.2.0, 9.4.0, 8.5.0, but not earlier: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94891 Clang was fixed in 12.0.0, though this was not backported: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75044 When using a compiler whose __builtin_return_address() strips the PAC, our wrapper to strip the PAC is redundant. Similarly, when pointer authentication is not in use within the kernel pointers will not have a PAC, and so there's no point stripping those pointers. To avoid this redundant work, this patch updates the __builtin_return_address() wrapper to only be used when in-kernel pointer authentication is configured and the compiler's __builtin_return_address() does not strip the PAC. This is a cleanup/optimization, and not a fix that requires backporting. Stripping a PAC should be an idempotent operation, and so redundantly stripping the PAC is not harmful. There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412160134.306148-2-mark.rutland@arm.comSigned-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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