This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/retpoline: Add NOENDBR annotation to the SRSO dummy return thunk 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-retpoline-add-noendbr-annotation-to-the-srso-dummy-return-thunk.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. >From b377c66ae3509ccea596512d6afb4777711c4870 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 16:46:37 +0200 Subject: x86/retpoline: Add NOENDBR annotation to the SRSO dummy return thunk From: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx> commit b377c66ae3509ccea596512d6afb4777711c4870 upstream. srso_alias_untrain_ret() is special code, even if it is a dummy which is called in the !SRSO case, so annotate it like its real counterpart, to address the following objtool splat: vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .export_symbol+0x2b290: data relocation to !ENDBR: srso_alias_untrain_ret+0x0 Fixes: 4535e1a4174c ("x86/bugs: Fix the SRSO mitigation on Zen3/4") Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240405144637.17908-1-bp@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S +++ b/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(__x86_return_thunk) UNWIND_HINT_FUNC ANNOTATE_NOENDBR ANNOTATE_UNRET_SAFE + ANNOTATE_NOENDBR ret int3 SYM_CODE_END(__x86_return_thunk) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@xxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/x86-retpoline-add-noendbr-annotation-to-the-srso-dummy-return-thunk.patch queue-6.1/x86-bugs-fix-the-srso-mitigation-on-zen3-4.patch queue-6.1/x86-retpoline-do-the-necessary-fixup-to-the-zen3-4-srso-return-thunk-for-srso.patch