From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50924 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753234AbeBINnj (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2018 08:43:39 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse , Thomas Gleixner , karahmed@amazon.de, peterz@infradead.org, bp@alien8.de Subject: [PATCH 4.9 72/92] x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 14:39:41 +0100 Message-Id: <20180209133936.436291131@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180209133931.211869118@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180209133931.211869118@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: David Woodhouse (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 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 #include +/* 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 __latent_entropy +#define __init __section(.init.text) __cold notrace __latent_entropy __noretpoline #define __initdata __section(.init.data) #define __initconst __section(.init.rodata) #define __exitdata __section(.exit.data)