Patch "retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk" 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

    retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk

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:
     retpoline-introduce-start-end-markers-of-indirect-thunk.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 736e80a4213e9bbce40a7c050337047128b472ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 01:14:21 +0900
Subject: retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk

From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

commit 736e80a4213e9bbce40a7c050337047128b472ac upstream.

Introduce start/end markers of __x86_indirect_thunk_* functions.
To make it easy, consolidate .text.__x86.indirect_thunk.* sections
to one .text.__x86.indirect_thunk section and put it in the
end of kernel text section and adds __indirect_thunk_start/end
so that other subsystem (e.g. kprobes) can identify it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151629206178.10241.6828804696410044771.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h |    3 +++
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S        |    7 +++++++
 arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S             |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ enum spectre_v2_mitigation {
 	SPECTRE_V2_IBRS,
 };
 
+extern char __indirect_thunk_start[];
+extern char __indirect_thunk_end[];
+
 /*
  * On VMEXIT we must ensure that no RSB predictions learned in the guest
  * can be followed in the host, by overwriting the RSB completely. Both
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ SECTIONS
 		IRQENTRY_TEXT
 		*(.fixup)
 		*(.gnu.warning)
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
+		__indirect_thunk_start = .;
+		*(.text.__x86.indirect_thunk)
+		__indirect_thunk_end = .;
+#endif
+
 		/* End of text section */
 		_etext = .;
 	} :text = 0x9090
--- a/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
 
 .macro THUNK reg
-	.section .text.__x86.indirect_thunk.\reg
+	.section .text.__x86.indirect_thunk
 
 ENTRY(__x86_indirect_thunk_\reg)
 	CFI_STARTPROC


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhiramat@kernel.org are

queue-4.4/kprobes-x86-disable-optimizing-on-the-function-jumps-to-indirect-thunk.patch
queue-4.4/kprobes-x86-blacklist-indirect-thunk-functions-for-kprobes.patch
queue-4.4/retpoline-introduce-start-end-markers-of-indirect-thunk.patch