Patch "x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions

to the 4.4-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-avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Fri Feb 23 17:23:58 CET 2018
From: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:42:11 +0100
Subject: x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, karahmed@amazon.de, peterz@infradead.org, bp@alien8.de, Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
Message-ID: <1519382538-15143-23-git-send-email-jinpu.wangl@profitbricks.com>

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

(cherry picked from commit 66f793099a636862a71c59d4a6ba91387b155e0c)

There's no point in building init code with retpolines, since it runs before
any potentially hostile userspace does. And before the retpoline is actually
ALTERNATIVEd into place, for much of it.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: karahmed@amazon.de
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517484441-1420-2-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
[jwang: port to 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/init.h |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/init.h
+++ b/include/linux/init.h
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
+/* Built-in __init functions needn't be compiled with retpoline */
+#if defined(RETPOLINE) && !defined(MODULE)
+#define __noretpoline __attribute__((indirect_branch("keep")))
+#else
+#define __noretpoline
+#endif
+
 /* These macros are used to mark some functions or 
  * initialized data (doesn't apply to uninitialized data)
  * as `initialization' functions. The kernel can take this
@@ -39,7 +46,7 @@
 
 /* These are for everybody (although not all archs will actually
    discard it in modules) */
-#define __init		__section(.init.text) __cold notrace
+#define __init		__section(.init.text) __cold notrace __noretpoline
 #define __initdata	__section(.init.data)
 #define __initconst	__constsection(.init.rodata)
 #define __exitdata	__section(.exit.data)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com are

queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-remove-noreplace-paravirt-cmdline-option.patch
queue-4.4/documentation-document-array_index_nospec.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.4/x86-nospec-fix-header-guards-names.patch
queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-functions.patch
queue-4.4/vfs-fdtable-prevent-bounds-check-bypass-via-speculative-execution.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-invvpid-handling-improvements.patch
queue-4.4/x86-cpu-bugs-make-retpoline-module-warning-conditional.patch
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-check-config_retpoline-in-command-line-parser.patch
queue-4.4/x86-implement-array_index_mask_nospec.patch
queue-4.4/array_index_nospec-sanitize-speculative-array-de-references.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-fix-kernel-panics-induced-by-illegal-invept-invvpid-types.patch
queue-4.4/module-retpoline-warn-about-missing-retpoline-in-module.patch
queue-4.4/x86-kvm-update-spectre-v1-mitigation.patch
queue-4.4/x86-get_user-use-pointer-masking-to-limit-speculation.patch
queue-4.4/x86-syscall-sanitize-syscall-table-de-references-under-speculation.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt-can-t-fail.patch
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-simplify-spectre_v2-command-line-parsing.patch
queue-4.4/x86-speculation-fix-typo-ibrs_att-which-should-be-ibrs_all.patch
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-report-get_user-mitigation-for-spectre_v1.patch
queue-4.4/x86-introduce-barrier_nospec.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-async_pf-fix-df-due-to-inject-page-not-present-and-page-ready-exceptions-simultaneously.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-vmx-clean-up-declaration-of-vpid-ept-invalidation-types.patch
queue-4.4/x86-bugs-drop-one-mitigation-from-dmesg.patch
queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch
queue-4.4/nl80211-sanitize-array-index-in-parse_txq_params.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-kmap-can-t-fail.patch