[PATCH 6/7] x86/speculation: Annotate retpoline return instructions

From: Alexandre Chartre
Date: Thu Apr 02 2020 - 04:19:00 EST


With retpoline, the return instruction (ret) is used to branch to an
address stored on the stack. Provide a macro to annotate such trampoline
returns so they can be properly handled by objtool, and use this macro
to annotate retpoline return instructions.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
index a2885f801e13..9ae6dde2f10b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -91,6 +91,20 @@
call \dst
.endm

+/*
+ * Retpoline return instruction. This should be used as a substitute
+ * for the ret instruction when doing a trampoline return. It is
+ * similar to the ret instruction but it tells objtool this is a
+ * trampoline return.
+ */
+.macro RETPOLINE_RET
+ .Lannotate_\@:
+ .pushsection .discard.retpoline_ret
+ _ASM_PTR .Lannotate_\@
+ .popsection
+ ret
+.endm
+
/*
* These are the bare retpoline primitives for indirect jmp and call.
* Do not use these directly; they only exist to make the ALTERNATIVE
@@ -104,7 +118,7 @@
jmp .Lspec_trap_\@
.Ldo_rop_\@:
mov \reg, (%_ASM_SP)
- ret
+ RETPOLINE_RET
.endm

/*
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