[PATCH 4.9 02/38] x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Mar 10 2022 - 09:23:42 EST


From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 4cd24de3a0980bf3100c9dcb08ef65ca7c31af48 upstream.

Since retpoline capable compilers are widely available, make
CONFIG_RETPOLINE hard depend on the compiler capability.

Break the build when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is enabled and the compiler does not
support it. Emit an error message in that case:

"arch/x86/Makefile:226: *** You are building kernel with non-retpoline
compiler, please update your compiler.. Stop."

[dwmw: Fail the build with non-retpoline compiler]

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <srinivas.eeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cca0cb20-f9e2-4094-840b-fb0f8810cd34@default
[bwh: Backported to 4.9:
- Drop change to objtool options
- Adjust context, indentation]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ----
arch/x86/Makefile | 5 +++--
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 10 ++++++----
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -418,10 +418,6 @@ config RETPOLINE
branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern
support for full protection. The kernel may run slower.

- Without compiler support, at least indirect branches in assembler
- code are eliminated. Since this includes the syscall entry path,
- it is not entirely pointless.
-
if X86_32
config X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
bool "Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms"
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -221,9 +221,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG := -mretpoline-external-thunk

RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC),$(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG)))
- ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
- KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE
+ ifeq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
+ $(error You are building kernel with non-retpoline compiler, please update your compiler.)
endif
+ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS)
endif

archscripts: scripts_basic
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -164,11 +164,12 @@
_ASM_PTR " 999b\n\t" \
".popsection\n\t"

-#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(RETPOLINE)
+#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64

/*
- * Since the inline asm uses the %V modifier which is only in newer GCC,
- * the 64-bit one is dependent on RETPOLINE not CONFIG_RETPOLINE.
+ * Inline asm uses the %V modifier which is only in newer GCC
+ * which is ensured when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is defined.
*/
# define CALL_NOSPEC \
ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE \
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@
X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD)
# define THUNK_TARGET(addr) [thunk_target] "r" (addr)

-#elif defined(CONFIG_X86_32) && defined(CONFIG_RETPOLINE)
+#else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
/*
* For i386 we use the original ret-equivalent retpoline, because
* otherwise we'll run out of registers. We don't care about CET
@@ -213,6 +214,7 @@
X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD)

# define THUNK_TARGET(addr) [thunk_target] "rm" (addr)
+#endif
#else /* No retpoline for C / inline asm */
# define CALL_NOSPEC "call *%[thunk_target]\n"
# define THUNK_TARGET(addr) [thunk_target] "rm" (addr)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ static void __init spec_v2_print_cond(co

static inline bool retp_compiler(void)
{
- return __is_defined(RETPOLINE);
+ return __is_defined(CONFIG_RETPOLINE);
}

static enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd __init spectre_v2_parse_cmdline(void)