This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/retpoline: Remove compile time warning
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: x86-retpoline-remove-compile-time-warning.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From b8b9ce4b5aec8de9e23cabb0a26b78641f9ab1d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:13:29 +0100 Subject: x86/retpoline: Remove compile time warning
From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de
commit b8b9ce4b5aec8de9e23cabb0a26b78641f9ab1d6 upstream.
Remove the compile time warning when CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y and the compiler does not have retpoline support. Linus rationale for this is:
It's wrong because it will just make people turn off RETPOLINE, and the asm updates - and return stack clearing - that are independent of the compiler are likely the most important parts because they are likely the ones easiest to target.
And it's annoying because most people won't be able to do anything about it. The number of people building their own compiler? Very small. So if their distro hasn't got a compiler yet (and pretty much nobody does), the warning is just annoying crap.
It is already properly reported as part of the sysfs interface. The compile-time warning only encourages bad things.
Fixes: 76b043848fd2 ("x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support") Requested-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: Rik van Riel riel@redhat.com Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Jiri Kosina jikos@kernel.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@amacapital.net Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@google.com Cc: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linux-foundation.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzWgquv4i6Mab6bASqYXg3ErV3XDFEYf=GEcCDQg5uAt... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/Makefile | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -194,8 +194,6 @@ ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register) ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE - else - $(warning CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y, but not supported by the compiler. Toolchain update recommended.) endif endif
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@linutronix.de are
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-add-boot-time-option-to-select-spectre-v2-mitigation.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-irq32-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-hyperv-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-entry-convert-entry-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-asm-use-register-variable-to-get-stack-pointer-value.patch queue-4.4/x86-cpu-amd-make-lfence-a-serializing-instruction.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-ftrace-convert-ftrace-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-crypto-convert-crypto-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-xen-convert-xen-hypercall-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-checksum32-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-32-move-setup_clear_cpu_cap-x86_feature_pcid-earlier.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-fill-return-stack-buffer-on-vmexit.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-remove-compile-time-warning.patch queue-4.4/x86-cpu-amd-use-lfence_rdtsc-in-preference-to-mfence_rdtsc.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-add-initial-retpoline-support.patch queue-4.4/x86-asm-make-asm-alternative.h-safe-from-assembly.patch