From ca41b97ed9124fd62323a162de5852f6e28f94b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:18:28 +0100 Subject: objtool: Add module specific retpoline rules David allowed retpolines in .init.text, except for modules, which will trip up objtool retpoline validation, fix that. Requested-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/objtool/check.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/objtool/check.c') diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c index 5e5db7b4d77b..472e64e95891 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -1958,6 +1958,15 @@ static int validate_retpoline(struct objtool_file *file) if (insn->retpoline_safe) continue; + /* + * .init.text code is ran before userspace and thus doesn't + * strictly need retpolines, except for modules which are + * loaded late, they very much do need retpoline in their + * .init.text + */ + if (!strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".init.text") && !module) + continue; + WARN_FUNC("indirect %s found in RETPOLINE build", insn->sec, insn->offset, insn->type == INSN_JUMP_DYNAMIC ? "jump" : "call"); -- cgit v1.2.3