[lld] [lld] Refactor storage of PAuth ABI core info (PR #141920)

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Author: SivanShani-Arm (sivan-shani)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

Previously, the AArch64 PAuth ABI core values were stored as an ArrayRef<uint8_t>, introducing unnecessary indirection.

This patch replaces the ArrayRef with two explicit uint64_t fields: aarch64PauthAbiPlatform and aarch64PauthAbiVersion. This simplifies the representation and improves readability.

No functional change intended, aside from improved error messages.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/141920.diff


7 Files Affected:

- (modified) lld/ELF/Arch/AArch64.cpp (+1-2) 
- (modified) lld/ELF/Config.h (+18-1) 
- (modified) lld/ELF/Driver.cpp (+17-10) 
- (modified) lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp (+4-2) 
- (modified) lld/ELF/InputFiles.h (+1-1) 
- (modified) lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp (+7-7) 
- (modified) lld/test/ELF/aarch64-feature-pauth.s (+6-2) 


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diff --git a/lld/ELF/Arch/AArch64.cpp b/lld/ELF/Arch/AArch64.cpp
index 9538dd4a70bae..30ce41e4effa8 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/Arch/AArch64.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/Arch/AArch64.cpp
@@ -1044,8 +1044,7 @@ AArch64BtiPac::AArch64BtiPac(Ctx &ctx) : AArch64(ctx) {
   // instructions.
 
   if (ctx.arg.zPacPlt) {
-    if (llvm::any_of(ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo,
-                     [](uint8_t c) { return c != 0; }))
+    if (ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo && ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo->isValid())
       pacEntryKind = PEK_Auth;
     else
       pacEntryKind = PEK_AuthHint;
diff --git a/lld/ELF/Config.h b/lld/ELF/Config.h
index f0e9592d85dd6..d8d9e3fd1699e 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/Config.h
+++ b/lld/ELF/Config.h
@@ -139,6 +139,23 @@ enum class GcsPolicy { Implicit, Never, Always };
 // For some options that resemble -z bti-report={none,warning,error}
 enum class ReportPolicy { None, Warning, Error };
 
+// Describes the signing schema for a file using the PAuth ABI extension.
+// Two files are considered compatible when both `platform` and `version` match.
+// The pair (0, 0) is reserved to indicate incompatibility with the PAuth ABI.
+struct AArch64PauthAbiCoreInfo {
+  uint64_t platform;
+  uint64_t version;
+  // Returns true if the core info is not the reserved (0, 0) value.
+  bool isValid() const { return platform || version; }
+  static constexpr size_t size() { return sizeof(platform) + sizeof(version); }
+  bool operator==(const AArch64PauthAbiCoreInfo &other) const {
+    return platform == other.platform && version == other.version;
+  }
+  bool operator!=(const AArch64PauthAbiCoreInfo &other) const {
+    return !(*this == other);
+  }
+};
+
 struct SymbolVersion {
   llvm::StringRef name;
   bool isExternCpp;
@@ -695,7 +712,7 @@ struct Ctx : CommonLinkerContext {
 
   llvm::raw_fd_ostream openAuxiliaryFile(llvm::StringRef, std::error_code &);
 
-  ArrayRef<uint8_t> aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo;
+  std::optional<AArch64PauthAbiCoreInfo> aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo;
 };
 
 // The first two elements of versionDefinitions represent VER_NDX_LOCAL and
diff --git a/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp b/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp
index 76a37b706c5fa..da51d9fab8d07 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp
@@ -2841,15 +2841,15 @@ static void readSecurityNotes(Ctx &ctx) {
   StringRef referenceFileName;
   if (ctx.arg.emachine == EM_AARCH64) {
     auto it = llvm::find_if(ctx.objectFiles, [](const ELFFileBase *f) {
-      return !f->aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.empty();
+      return f->aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.has_value();
     });
     if (it != ctx.objectFiles.end()) {
       ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo = (*it)->aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo;
       referenceFileName = (*it)->getName();
     }
   }
-  bool hasValidPauthAbiCoreInfo = llvm::any_of(
-      ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo, [](uint8_t c) { return c != 0; });
+  bool hasValidPauthAbiCoreInfo =
+      ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo && ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo->isValid();
 
   auto report = [&](ReportPolicy policy) -> ELFSyncStream {
     return {ctx, toDiagLevel(policy)};
@@ -2909,10 +2909,10 @@ static void readSecurityNotes(Ctx &ctx) {
     }
     ctx.arg.andFeatures &= features;
 
-    if (ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.empty())
+    if (!ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo)
       continue;
 
-    if (f->aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.empty()) {
+    if (!f->aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo) {
       report(ctx.arg.zPauthReport)
           << f
           << ": -z pauth-report: file does not have AArch64 "
@@ -2922,11 +2922,18 @@ static void readSecurityNotes(Ctx &ctx) {
     }
 
     if (ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo != f->aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo)
-      Err(ctx) << "incompatible values of AArch64 PAuth core info found\n>>> "
-               << referenceFileName << ": 0x"
-               << toHex(ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo, /*LowerCase=*/true)
-               << "\n>>> " << f << ": 0x"
-               << toHex(f->aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo, /*LowerCase=*/true);
+      Err(ctx)
+          << "incompatible values of AArch64 PAuth core info found\n"
+          << "platform:\n"
+          << ">>> " << referenceFileName << ": 0x"
+          << toHex(ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo->platform, /*LowerCase=*/true)
+          << "\n>>> " << f << ": 0x"
+          << toHex(f->aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo->platform, /*LowerCase=*/true)
+          << "\nversion:\n"
+          << ">>> " << referenceFileName << ": 0x"
+          << toHex(ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo->version, /*LowerCase=*/true)
+          << "\n>>> " << f << ": 0x"
+          << toHex(f->aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo->version, /*LowerCase=*/true);
   }
 
   // Force enable Shadow Stack.
diff --git a/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp b/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
index 5f6d2b6b647ee..817af15a841ec 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ static void parseGnuPropertyNote(Ctx &ctx, ELFFileBase &f,
     } else if (ctx.arg.emachine == EM_AARCH64 &&
                type == GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_PAUTH) {
       ArrayRef<uint8_t> contents = data ? *data : desc;
-      if (!f.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.empty()) {
+      if (f.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo) {
         return void(
             err(contents.data())
             << "multiple GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_PAUTH entries are "
@@ -961,7 +961,9 @@ static void parseGnuPropertyNote(Ctx &ctx, ELFFileBase &f,
                        "is invalid: expected 16 bytes, but got "
                     << size);
       }
-      f.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo = desc;
+      f.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo = {
+          support::endian::read64<ELFT::Endianness>(&desc[0]),
+          support::endian::read64<ELFT::Endianness>(&desc[8])};
     }
 
     // Padding is present in the note descriptor, if necessary.
diff --git a/lld/ELF/InputFiles.h b/lld/ELF/InputFiles.h
index 808cb5d24079f..ba844ad18f637 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/InputFiles.h
+++ b/lld/ELF/InputFiles.h
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class ELFFileBase : public InputFile {
   StringRef sourceFile;
   uint32_t andFeatures = 0;
   bool hasCommonSyms = false;
-  ArrayRef<uint8_t> aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo;
+  std::optional<AArch64PauthAbiCoreInfo> aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo;
 };
 
 // .o file.
diff --git a/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp b/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
index 46591e909ba4f..eb902767746de 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
@@ -344,11 +344,11 @@ void GnuPropertySection::writeTo(uint8_t *buf) {
     offset += 16;
   }
 
-  if (!ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.empty()) {
+  if (ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo) {
     write32(ctx, buf + offset + 0, GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_PAUTH);
-    write32(ctx, buf + offset + 4, ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.size());
-    memcpy(buf + offset + 8, ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.data(),
-           ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.size());
+    write32(ctx, buf + offset + 4, AArch64PauthAbiCoreInfo::size());
+    write64(ctx, buf + offset + 8, ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo->platform);
+    write64(ctx, buf + offset + 16, ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo->version);
   }
 }
 
@@ -356,8 +356,8 @@ size_t GnuPropertySection::getSize() const {
   uint32_t contentSize = 0;
   if (ctx.arg.andFeatures != 0)
     contentSize += ctx.arg.is64 ? 16 : 12;
-  if (!ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.empty())
-    contentSize += 4 + 4 + ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.size();
+  if (ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo)
+    contentSize += 4 + 4 + AArch64PauthAbiCoreInfo::size();
   assert(contentSize != 0);
   return contentSize + 16;
 }
@@ -4959,7 +4959,7 @@ template <class ELFT> void elf::createSyntheticSections(Ctx &ctx) {
   ctx.in.iplt = std::make_unique<IpltSection>(ctx);
   add(*ctx.in.iplt);
 
-  if (ctx.arg.andFeatures || !ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo.empty()) {
+  if (ctx.arg.andFeatures || ctx.aarch64PauthAbiCoreInfo) {
     ctx.in.gnuProperty = std::make_unique<GnuPropertySection>(ctx);
     add(*ctx.in.gnuProperty);
   }
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/aarch64-feature-pauth.s b/lld/test/ELF/aarch64-feature-pauth.s
index bc58f69d32f2b..e8c900b9cb134 100644
--- a/lld/test/ELF/aarch64-feature-pauth.s
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/aarch64-feature-pauth.s
@@ -13,8 +13,12 @@
 # RUN: not ld.lld tag1.o tag1a.o tag2.o -o /dev/null 2>&1 | FileCheck --check-prefix ERR1 %s
 
 # ERR1:      error: incompatible values of AArch64 PAuth core info found
-# ERR1-NEXT: >>> tag1.o: 0x2a000000000000000{{1|2}}00000000000000
-# ERR1-NEXT: >>> tag2.o: 0x2a000000000000000{{1|2}}00000000000000
+# ERR1-NEXT: platform:
+# ERR1-NEXT: >>> tag1.o: 0x2a
+# ERR1-NEXT: >>> tag2.o: 0x2a
+# ERR1-NEXT: version:
+# ERR1-NEXT: >>> tag1.o: 0x01
+# ERR1-NEXT: >>> tag2.o: 0x02
 
 # RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=aarch64-linux-gnu abi-tag-short.s -o short.o
 # RUN: not ld.lld short.o -o /dev/null 2>&1 | FileCheck --check-prefix ERR2 %s

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/141920


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