[PATCH 09/11] x86/retpoline: Finally enable retpoline for C code

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jan 03 2018 - 18:10:42 EST


From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Add retpoline compile option in Makefile

Update Makefile with retpoline compile options. This requires a gcc with the
retpoline compiler patches enabled.

Print a warning when the compiler doesn't support retpoline

[Originally from David and Tim, but hacked by AK]

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Makefile | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 3e73bc255e4e..dad4b24abdc9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -230,6 +230,15 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
#
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables

+#
+RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern)
+ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
+ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE
+ KBUILD_AFLAGS += -DRETPOLINE
+else
+ $(warning Retpoline not supported in compiler. Kernel may be insecure.)
+endif
+
archscripts: scripts_basic
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=arch/x86/tools relocs

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