This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/build: Move '-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix' out of GCC-only block
to the 6.1-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:
x86-build-move-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix-out-of-gcc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 16c08189f60712a186707f179681ef5c3c289f3e
Author: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 20 09:58:27 2023 -0700
x86/build: Move '-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix' out of GCC-only block
[ Upstream commit 27b5de622ea3fe0ad5a31a0ebd9f7a0a276932d1 ]
LLVM 16 will have support for this flag so move it out of the GCC-only
block to allow LLVM builds to take advantage of it.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1665
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/6f867f9102838ebe314c1f3661fdf95700386e5a
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120165826.2469302-1-nathan@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 415a5d138de4..3419ffa2a350 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ endif
ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
RETPOLINE_CFLAGS := $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register)
-RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix)
RETPOLINE_VDSO_CFLAGS := $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-inline -mindirect-branch-register)
endif
ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
RETPOLINE_CFLAGS := -mretpoline-external-thunk
RETPOLINE_VDSO_CFLAGS := -mretpoline
endif
+RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix)
ifdef CONFIG_RETHUNK
RETHUNK_CFLAGS := -mfunction-return=thunk-extern
