This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/retpoline: Support retpoline builds with Clang
to the 4.9-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-support-retpoline-builds-with-clang.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 87358710c1fb4f1bf96bbe2349975ff9953fc9b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:50:57 +0000 Subject: x86/retpoline: Support retpoline builds with Clang
From: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk
commit 87358710c1fb4f1bf96bbe2349975ff9953fc9b2 upstream.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: jmattson@google.com Cc: karahmed@amazon.de Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519037457-7643-5-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/Makefile | 5 ++++- include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 5 +++++ include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 4 ++++ include/linux/init.h | 8 ++++---- 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -184,7 +184,10 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(mflags-y)
# Avoid indirect branches in kernel to deal with Spectre ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE - RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register) + RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC := -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register + RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG := -mretpoline-external-thunk + + RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC),$(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG))) ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE endif --- a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h @@ -15,3 +15,8 @@ * with any version that can compile the kernel */ #define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__) + +/* Clang doesn't have a way to turn it off per-function, yet. */ +#ifdef __noretpoline +#undef __noretpoline +#endif --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h @@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ #define __weak __attribute__((weak)) #define __alias(symbol) __attribute__((alias(#symbol)))
+#ifdef RETPOLINE +#define __noretpoline __attribute__((indirect_branch("keep"))) +#endif + /* * it doesn't make sense on ARM (currently the only user of __naked) * to trace naked functions because then mcount is called without --- a/include/linux/init.h +++ b/include/linux/init.h @@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ #include <linux/types.h>
/* Built-in __init functions needn't be compiled with retpoline */ -#if defined(RETPOLINE) && !defined(MODULE) -#define __noretpoline __attribute__((indirect_branch("keep"))) +#if defined(__noretpoline) && !defined(MODULE) +#define __noinitretpoline __noretpoline #else -#define __noretpoline +#define __noinitretpoline #endif
/* These macros are used to mark some functions or @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
/* These are for everybody (although not all archs will actually discard it in modules) */ -#define __init __section(.init.text) __cold notrace __latent_entropy __noretpoline +#define __init __section(.init.text) __cold notrace __latent_entropy __noinitretpoline #define __initdata __section(.init.data) #define __initconst __section(.init.rodata) #define __exitdata __section(.exit.data)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dwmw@amazon.co.uk are
queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-support-retpoline-builds-with-clang.patch queue-4.9/revert-x86-retpoline-simplify-vmexit_fill_rsb.patch queue-4.9/x86-speculation-use-ibrs-if-available-before-calling-into-firmware.patch queue-4.9/x86-speculation-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls-jumps-for-objtool.patch