kbuild: rust: keep Rust objects out of Clang LTO with inline helpersgrafted

Under `CONFIG_LTO_CLANG` + `CONFIG_RUST_INLINE_HELPERS`, one may hit
`objtool` errors such as:

    vmlinux.o: error: objtool: _R..._3Gsp4boot+0xd6a:
    can't find jump dest instruction at .text._R..._3Gsp4boot+0x1dfd

The reason is that in such builds, the Clang invocation that compiles
the combined Rust plus helpers bitcode emits LLVM bitcode (again) --
the final code generation happens in the linker's LTO step, which the
`-mllvm` trap options passed to Clang do not reach.

This, in turn, means that unreachable traps are missing, and the
impossible paths do not merely fallthrough to the next symbol, but past
the end of their own section, since LTO builds place each function in
its own section.

Thus filter `CC_FLAGS_LTO` out of the Clang invocation, so that it always
emits machine code directly, with the traps in place.

Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3a2486cc1da5 ("kbuild: rust: provide an option to inline C helpers into Rust")
Acked-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260816133233.197500-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rust/build_error.rs b/rust/build_error.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fa24eeef9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/build_error.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+//! Build-time error.
+//!
+//! This crate provides a [const function][const-functions] `build_error`, which will panic in
+//! compile-time if executed in [const context][const-context], and will cause a build error
+//! if not executed at compile time and the optimizer does not optimise away the call.
+//!
+//! It is used by `build_assert!` in the kernel crate, allowing checking of
+//! conditions that could be checked statically, but could not be enforced in
+//! Rust yet (e.g. perform some checks in [const functions][const-functions], but those
+//! functions could still be called in the runtime).
+//!
+//! For details on constant evaluation in Rust, please see the [Reference][const-eval].
+//!
+//! [const-eval]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/const_eval.html
+//! [const-functions]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/const_eval.html#const-functions
+//! [const-context]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/const_eval.html#const-context
+
+#![no_std]
+
+/// Panics if executed in [const context][const-context], or triggers a build error if not.
+///
+/// [const-context]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/const_eval.html#const-context
+#[inline(never)]
+#[cold]
+#[export_name = "rust_build_error"]
+#[track_caller]
+pub const fn build_error(msg: &'static str) -> ! {
+    panic!("{}", msg);
+}