This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86retpoline_Make_CONFIG_RETPOLINE_depend_on_compiler_support.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. Subject: x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support From: Zhenzhong Duan zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri Nov 2 01:45:41 2018 -0700 From: Zhenzhong Duan zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx commit 4cd24de3a0980bf3100c9dcb08ef65ca7c31af48 upstream Since retpoline capable compilers are widely available, make CONFIG_RETPOLINE hard depend on the compiler capability. Break the build when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is enabled and the compiler does not support it. Emit an error message in that case: "arch/x86/Makefile:226: *** You are building kernel with non-retpoline compiler, please update your compiler.. Stop." [dwmw: Fail the build with non-retpoline compiler] Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <srinivas.eeda@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cca0cb20-f9e2-4094-840b-fb0f8810cd34@default Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ---- arch/x86/Makefile | 5 +++-- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 10 ++++++---- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +- scripts/Makefile.build | 2 -- 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -440,10 +440,6 @@ config RETPOLINE branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern support for full protection. The kernel may run slower. - Without compiler support, at least indirect branches in assembler - code are eliminated. Since this includes the syscall entry path, - it is not entirely pointless. - config INTEL_RDT bool "Intel Resource Director Technology support" default n --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -241,9 +241,10 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwin # Avoid indirect branches in kernel to deal with Spectre ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE -ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),) - KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE +ifeq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),) + $(error You are building kernel with non-retpoline compiler, please update your compiler.) endif + KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) endif archscripts: scripts_basic --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -162,11 +162,12 @@ _ASM_PTR " 999b\n\t" \ ".popsection\n\t" -#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(RETPOLINE) +#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 /* - * Since the inline asm uses the %V modifier which is only in newer GCC, - * the 64-bit one is dependent on RETPOLINE not CONFIG_RETPOLINE. + * Inline asm uses the %V modifier which is only in newer GCC + * which is ensured when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is defined. */ # define CALL_NOSPEC \ ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE \ @@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD) # define THUNK_TARGET(addr) [thunk_target] "r" (addr) -#elif defined(CONFIG_X86_32) && defined(CONFIG_RETPOLINE) +#else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */ /* * For i386 we use the original ret-equivalent retpoline, because * otherwise we'll run out of registers. We don't care about CET @@ -211,6 +212,7 @@ X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD) # define THUNK_TARGET(addr) [thunk_target] "rm" (addr) +#endif #else /* No retpoline for C / inline asm */ # define CALL_NOSPEC "call *%[thunk_target]\n" # define THUNK_TARGET(addr) [thunk_target] "rm" (addr) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ static void __init spec2_print_if_secure static inline bool retp_compiler(void) { - return __is_defined(RETPOLINE); + return __is_defined(CONFIG_RETPOLINE); } static inline bool match_option(const char *arg, int arglen, const char *opt) --- a/scripts/Makefile.build +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build @@ -272,10 +272,8 @@ else objtool_args += $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0405, --no-unreachable) endif ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE -ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),) objtool_args += --retpoline endif -endif ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/x86retpoline_Make_CONFIG_RETPOLINE_depend_on_compiler_support.patch queue-4.14/x86retpoline_Remove_minimal_retpoline_support.patch queue-4.14/x86speculation_Add_RETPOLINE_AMD_support_to_the_inline_asm_CALL_NOSPEC_variant.patch