4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6cfb521ac0d5b97470883ff9b7facae264b7ab12 upstream. Add a marker for retpoline to the module VERMAGIC. This catches the case when a non RETPOLINE compiled module gets loaded into a retpoline kernel, making it insecure. It doesn't handle the case when retpoline has been runtime disabled. Even in this case the match of the retcompile status will be enforced. This implies that even with retpoline run time disabled all modules loaded need to be recompiled. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@xxxxxxxxx Cc: jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180116205228.4890-1-andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/vermagic.h | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/vermagic.h +++ b/include/linux/vermagic.h @@ -24,10 +24,16 @@ #ifndef MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC #define MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC "" #endif +#ifdef RETPOLINE +#define MODULE_VERMAGIC_RETPOLINE "retpoline " +#else +#define MODULE_VERMAGIC_RETPOLINE "" +#endif #define VERMAGIC_STRING \ UTS_RELEASE " " \ MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT \ MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODULE_UNLOAD MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODVERSIONS \ - MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC + MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC \ + MODULE_VERMAGIC_RETPOLINE