This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled objtool: Add module specific retpoline rules to the 4.15-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: objtool-add-module-specific-retpoline-rules.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ca41b97ed9124fd62323a162de5852f6e28f94b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:18:28 +0100 Subject: objtool: Add module specific retpoline rules From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit ca41b97ed9124fd62323a162de5852f6e28f94b8 upstream. David allowed retpolines in .init.text, except for modules, which will trip up objtool retpoline validation, fix that. Requested-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/Makefile.build | 2 ++ tools/objtool/builtin-check.c | 3 ++- tools/objtool/builtin.h | 2 +- tools/objtool/check.c | 9 +++++++++ 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/Makefile.build +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build @@ -256,6 +256,8 @@ __objtool_obj := $(objtree)/tools/objtoo objtool_args = $(if $(CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC),orc generate,check) +objtool_args += $(if $(part-of-module), --module,) + ifndef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER objtool_args += --no-fp endif --- a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ #include "builtin.h" #include "check.h" -bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline; +bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline, module; static const char * const check_usage[] = { "objtool check [<options>] file.o", @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ const struct option check_options[] = { OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "no-fp", &no_fp, "Skip frame pointer validation"), OPT_BOOLEAN('u', "no-unreachable", &no_unreachable, "Skip 'unreachable instruction' warnings"), OPT_BOOLEAN('r', "retpoline", &retpoline, "Validate retpoline assumptions"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "module", &module, "Indicates the object will be part of a kernel module"), OPT_END(), }; --- a/tools/objtool/builtin.h +++ b/tools/objtool/builtin.h @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ #include <subcmd/parse-options.h> extern const struct option check_options[]; -extern bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline; +extern bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline, module; extern int cmd_check(int argc, const char **argv); extern int cmd_orc(int argc, const char **argv); --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -1957,6 +1957,15 @@ static int validate_retpoline(struct obj if (insn->retpoline_safe) continue; + /* + * .init.text code is ran before userspace and thus doesn't + * strictly need retpolines, except for modules which are + * loaded late, they very much do need retpoline in their + * .init.text + */ + if (!strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".init.text") && !module) + continue; + WARN_FUNC("indirect %s found in RETPOLINE build", insn->sec, insn->offset, insn->type == INSN_JUMP_DYNAMIC ? "jump" : "call"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/x86-kprobes-fix-kernel-crash-when-probing-.entry_trampoline-code.patch queue-4.15/objtool-fix-32-bit-build.patch queue-4.15/x86-boot-objtool-annotate-indirect-jump-in-secondary_startup_64.patch queue-4.15/objtool-add-module-specific-retpoline-rules.patch queue-4.15/x86-retpoline-support-retpoline-builds-with-clang.patch queue-4.15/x86-ldt-avoid-warning-in-32-bit-builds-with-older-gcc.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-reduce-the-code-footprint-of-the-idtentry-macro.patch queue-4.15/objtool-retpolines-integrate-objtool-with-retpoline-support-more-closely.patch queue-4.15/bug-use-pb-in-bug-and-stack-protector-failure.patch queue-4.15/revert-x86-retpoline-simplify-vmexit_fill_rsb.patch queue-4.15/nospec-include-asm-barrier.h-dependency.patch queue-4.15/x86-mm-remove-stale-comment-about-kmemcheck.patch queue-4.15/objtool-add-retpoline-validation.patch queue-4.15/x86-mm-sme-objtool-annotate-indirect-call-in-sme_encrypt_execute.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-use-ibrs-if-available-before-calling-into-firmware.patch queue-4.15/x86-asm-improve-how-gen_-_suffixed_rmwcc-specify-clobbers.patch queue-4.15/x86-64-realmode-add-instruction-suffix.patch queue-4.15/objtool-fix-another-switch-table-detection-issue.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-move-firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_-from-c-to-cpp.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls-jumps-for-objtool.patch queue-4.15/x86-paravirt-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls.patch queue-4.15/objtool-use-existing-global-variables-for-options.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-use-xorl-for-faster-register-clearing.patch queue-4.15/nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch queue-4.15/lib-bug.c-exclude-non-bug-warn-exceptions-from-report_bug.patch queue-4.15/x86-io-apic-avoid-warning-in-32-bit-builds.patch