This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions
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-avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-functions.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 foo@baz Fri Feb 23 17:23:58 CET 2018
From: Jack Wang jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:42:11 +0100 Subject: x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk, Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de, karahmed@amazon.de, peterz@infradead.org, bp@alien8.de, Jack Wang jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com Message-ID: 1519382538-15143-23-git-send-email-jinpu.wangl@profitbricks.com
From: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 66f793099a636862a71c59d4a6ba91387b155e0c)
There's no point in building init code with retpolines, since it runs before any potentially hostile userspace does. And before the retpoline is actually ALTERNATIVEd into place, for much of it.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: karahmed@amazon.de Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: bp@alien8.de Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517484441-1420-2-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk [jwang: port to 4.4] Signed-off-by: Jack Wang jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- include/linux/init.h | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/init.h +++ b/include/linux/init.h @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ #include <linux/compiler.h> #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"))) +#else +#define __noretpoline +#endif + /* These macros are used to mark some functions or * initialized data (doesn't apply to uninitialized data) * as `initialization' functions. The kernel can take this @@ -39,7 +46,7 @@
/* These are for everybody (although not all archs will actually discard it in modules) */ -#define __init __section(.init.text) __cold notrace +#define __init __section(.init.text) __cold notrace __noretpoline #define __initdata __section(.init.data) #define __initconst __constsection(.init.rodata) #define __exitdata __section(.exit.data)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com are
queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-remove-noreplace-paravirt-cmdline-option.patch queue-4.4/documentation-document-array_index_nospec.patch queue-4.4/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.4/x86-nospec-fix-header-guards-names.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-functions.patch queue-4.4/vfs-fdtable-prevent-bounds-check-bypass-via-speculative-execution.patch queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-invvpid-handling-improvements.patch queue-4.4/x86-cpu-bugs-make-retpoline-module-warning-conditional.patch queue-4.4/x86-spectre-check-config_retpoline-in-command-line-parser.patch queue-4.4/x86-implement-array_index_mask_nospec.patch queue-4.4/array_index_nospec-sanitize-speculative-array-de-references.patch queue-4.4/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.4/x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-fix-kernel-panics-induced-by-illegal-invept-invvpid-types.patch queue-4.4/module-retpoline-warn-about-missing-retpoline-in-module.patch queue-4.4/x86-kvm-update-spectre-v1-mitigation.patch queue-4.4/x86-get_user-use-pointer-masking-to-limit-speculation.patch queue-4.4/x86-syscall-sanitize-syscall-table-de-references-under-speculation.patch queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt-can-t-fail.patch queue-4.4/x86-spectre-simplify-spectre_v2-command-line-parsing.patch queue-4.4/x86-speculation-fix-typo-ibrs_att-which-should-be-ibrs_all.patch queue-4.4/x86-spectre-report-get_user-mitigation-for-spectre_v1.patch queue-4.4/x86-introduce-barrier_nospec.patch queue-4.4/kvm-async_pf-fix-df-due-to-inject-page-not-present-and-page-ready-exceptions-simultaneously.patch queue-4.4/kvm-vmx-clean-up-declaration-of-vpid-ept-invalidation-types.patch queue-4.4/x86-bugs-drop-one-mitigation-from-dmesg.patch queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch queue-4.4/nl80211-sanitize-array-index-in-parse_txq_params.patch queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-kmap-can-t-fail.patch