[PATCH 4.9 72/92] x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Feb 09 2018 - 09:03:02 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


(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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: karahmed@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bp@xxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517484441-1420-2-git-send-email-dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 __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)