4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 25896d073d8a0403b07e6dec56f58e6c33678207 upstream.
It is troublesome to add a diagnostic like this to the Makefile
parse stage because the top-level Makefile could be parsed with
a stale include/config/auto.conf.
Once you are hit by the error about non-retpoline compiler, the
compilation still breaks even after disabling CONFIG_RETPOLINE.
The easiest fix is to move this check to the "archprepare" like
this commit did:
829fe4aa9ac1 ("x86: Allow generating user-space headers without a compiler")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 4cd24de3a098 ("x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543991239-18476-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/4/206
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gi-Oh Kim <gi-oh.kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Makefile | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -241,9 +241,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwin
# Avoid indirect branches in kernel to deal with Spectre
ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
-ifeq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
- $(error You are building kernel with non-retpoline compiler, please update your compiler.)
-endif
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS)
endif
@@ -260,6 +257,13 @@ archprepare:
ifeq ($(CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE),y)
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=arch/x86/purgatory arch/x86/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
endif
+ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
+ifeq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
+ @echo "You are building kernel with non-retpoline compiler." >&2
+ @echo "Please update your compiler." >&2
+ @false
+endif
+endif
###
# Kernel objects
