Patch "x86/retpoline: Remove the esp/rsp thunk" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/retpoline: Remove the esp/rsp thunk

to the 4.9-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-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Feb  7 19:38:23 CST 2018
From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:09:34 -0500
Subject: x86/retpoline: Remove the esp/rsp thunk

From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

(cherry picked from commit 1df37383a8aeabb9b418698f0bcdffea01f4b1b2)

It doesn't make sense to have an indirect call thunk with esp/rsp as
retpoline code won't work correctly with the stack pointer register.
Removing it will help compiler writers to catch error in case such
a thunk call is emitted incorrectly.

Fixes: 76b043848fd2 ("x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support")
Suggested-by: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516658974-27852-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h |    1 -
 arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S              |    1 -
 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
@@ -37,5 +37,4 @@ INDIRECT_THUNK(dx)
 INDIRECT_THUNK(si)
 INDIRECT_THUNK(di)
 INDIRECT_THUNK(bp)
-INDIRECT_THUNK(sp)
 #endif /* CONFIG_RETPOLINE */
--- a/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_DX)
 GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_SI)
 GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_DI)
 GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_BP)
-GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_SP)
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 GENERATE_THUNK(r8)
 GENERATE_THUNK(r9)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from longman@redhat.com are

queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch