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PLT entries are PseudoFunctions, and are not disassembled or emitted.
For BTI, we need to check the first MCInst of PLT entries, to see
if indirectly calling them is safe or not.

This patch disassembles PLTs for binaries using BTI, while not changing
the behaviour for binaries without BTI.

The PLTs are only disassembled, not emitted.

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@bgergely0 bgergely0 marked this pull request as ready for review November 26, 2025 15:15
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llvmbot commented Nov 26, 2025

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Author: Gergely Bálint (bgergely0)

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PLT entries are PseudoFunctions, and are not disassembled or emitted.
For BTI, we need to check the first MCInst of PLT entries, to see
if indirectly calling them is safe or not.

This patch disassembles PLTs for binaries using BTI, while not changing
the behaviour for binaries without BTI.

The PLTs are only disassembled, not emitted.


Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/169663.diff

3 Files Affected:

  • (modified) bolt/lib/Core/BinaryFunction.cpp (+5)
  • (modified) bolt/lib/Rewrite/RewriteInstance.cpp (+6)
  • (added) bolt/test/runtime/AArch64/disassemble-plts.c (+30)
diff --git a/bolt/lib/Core/BinaryFunction.cpp b/bolt/lib/Core/BinaryFunction.cpp index a5fdf79a737f5..8cb0ccf7bd396 100644 --- a/bolt/lib/Core/BinaryFunction.cpp +++ b/bolt/lib/Core/BinaryFunction.cpp @@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ static cl::opt<bool> TrapOnAVX512( cl::init(false), cl::ZeroOrMore, cl::Hidden, cl::cat(BoltCategory)); bool shouldPrint(const BinaryFunction &Function) { + // PLT stubs are disassembled for BTI binaries, therefore they should be + // printed. + if (Function.getBinaryContext().usesBTI() && Function.isPLTFunction()) + return true; + if (Function.isIgnored()) return false; diff --git a/bolt/lib/Rewrite/RewriteInstance.cpp b/bolt/lib/Rewrite/RewriteInstance.cpp index 8a5bbe28e5f66..1be5fc4e2a707 100644 --- a/bolt/lib/Rewrite/RewriteInstance.cpp +++ b/bolt/lib/Rewrite/RewriteInstance.cpp @@ -461,6 +461,12 @@ Error RewriteInstance::setProfile(StringRef Filename) { /// Return true if the function \p BF should be disassembled. static bool shouldDisassemble(const BinaryFunction &BF) { + + const BinaryContext &BC = BF.getBinaryContext(); + // Disassemble PLT functions on AArch64 to check BTI landing pads. + if (BC.usesBTI() && BF.isPLTFunction()) + return true; + if (BF.isPseudo()) return false; diff --git a/bolt/test/runtime/AArch64/disassemble-plts.c b/bolt/test/runtime/AArch64/disassemble-plts.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..5bb0e8615eeab --- /dev/null +++ b/bolt/test/runtime/AArch64/disassemble-plts.c @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +// This test checks that BOLT disassembles PLT stubs in binaries using BTI, +// while keeping them not disassembled in non-BTI binaries. + +// RUN: %clang -fuse-ld=lld --target=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu %s -o %t.exe +// -Wl,-q RUN: llvm-bolt %t.exe -o %t.bolt --print-disasm | FileCheck %s +// +// RUN: %clang -fuse-ld=lld --target=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu \ +// RUN: -mbranch-protection=standard %s -o %t.bti.exe -Wl,-q -Wl,-z,force-bti +// RUN: llvm-bolt %t.bti.exe -o %t.bolt --print-disasm | FileCheck %s +// --check-prefix=CHECK-BTI + +// For the non-BTI binary, PLTs should not be disassembled. +// CHECK-NOT: Binary Function "{{.*}}@PLT" after disassembly { + +// Check that PLTs are disassembled for the BTI binary. +// CHECK-BTI: Binary Function "__libc_start_main@PLT" after disassembly { +// CHECK-BTI: adrp +// CHECK-BTI: ldr +// CHECK-BTI: add +// CHECK-BTI: br +// CHECK-BTI: End of Function "__libc_start_main@PLT" + +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +int main(int argc, char **argv) { + if (argc > 3) + exit(42); + else + printf("Number of args: %d\n", argc); +} 
@bgergely0 bgergely0 marked this pull request as draft November 26, 2025 15:16
@bgergely0 bgergely0 force-pushed the users/bgergely0/bolt-disassemble-plts branch from 1cd2273 to b343a44 Compare November 26, 2025 15:18
@bgergely0 bgergely0 marked this pull request as ready for review November 26, 2025 15:25
PLT entries are PseudoFunctions, and are not disassembled or emitted. For BTI, we need to check the first MCInst of PLT entries, to see if indirectly calling them is safe or not. This patch disassembles PLTs for binaries using BTI, while not changing the behaviour for binaries without BTI. The PLTs are only disassembled, not emitted.
@bgergely0 bgergely0 force-pushed the users/bgergely0/bolt-disassemble-plts branch from b343a44 to 1a96c46 Compare November 26, 2025 17:30
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Note: there is an assert checking that PLT functions' Size must be 0. This never triggered during my local testing. I'm not sure why the Size (meaning the original size of the function) was set to 0 though.

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