Patch "objtool, retpolines: Integrate objtool with retpoline support more closely" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

objtool, retpolines: Integrate objtool with retpoline support more closely

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
objtool-retpolines-integrate-objtool-with-retpoline-support-more-closely.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 09:46:13 +0100
Subject: objtool, retpolines: Integrate objtool with retpoline support more closely

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>

commit d5028ba8ee5a18c9d0bb926d883c28b370f89009 upstream.

Disable retpoline validation in objtool if your compiler sucks, and otherwise select the validation stuff for CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y (most builds would already have it set due to ORC).

---
 Makefile               |    5 +++++
 arch/x86/Kconfig       |    1 +
 arch/x86/Makefile      |   10 +++-------
 scripts/Makefile.build |    2 ++
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

@@ -487,6 +487,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG_GCC_TC)
 endif
 
+RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC := -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register
+RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG := -mretpoline-external-thunk
+RETPOLINE_CFLAGS := $(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC),$(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG)))
+export RETPOLINE_CFLAGS
+
 ifeq ($(config-targets),1)
 # ===========================================================================
 # *config targets only - make sure prerequisites are updated, and descend

@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ config GOLDFISH
 config RETPOLINE
 	bool "Avoid speculative indirect branches in kernel"
 	default y
+	select STACK_VALIDATION if HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
 	help
 	  Compile kernel with the retpoline compiler options to guard against
 	  kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding speculative indirect

@@ -232,13 +232,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwin
 
 # Avoid indirect branches in kernel to deal with Spectre
 ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
-    RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC := -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register
-    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 += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE
-    endif
+ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
+  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE
+endif
 endif
 
 archscripts: scripts_basic

@@ -267,8 +267,10 @@ else
 objtool_args += $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0405, --no-unreachable)
 endif
 ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
+ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
   objtool_args += --retpoline
 endif
+endif
 
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.15/x86-kprobes-fix-kernel-crash-when-probing-.entry_trampoline-code.patch queue-4.15/objtool-fix-32-bit-build.patch queue-4.15/x86-boot-objtool-annotate-indirect-jump-in-secondary_startup_64.patch queue-4.15/objtool-add-module-specific-retpoline-rules.patch queue-4.15/x86-retpoline-support-retpoline-builds-with-clang.patch queue-4.15/x86-ldt-avoid-warning-in-32-bit-builds-with-older-gcc.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-reduce-the-code-footprint-of-the-idtentry-macro.patch queue-4.15/objtool-retpolines-integrate-objtool-with-retpoline-support-more-closely.patch queue-4.15/bug-use-pb-in-bug-and-stack-protector-failure.patch queue-4.15/revert-x86-retpoline-simplify-vmexit_fill_rsb.patch queue-4.15/nospec-include-asm-barrier.h-dependency.patch queue-4.15/x86-mm-remove-stale-comment-about-kmemcheck.patch queue-4.15/objtool-add-retpoline-validation.patch queue-4.15/x86-mm-sme-objtool-annotate-indirect-call-in-sme_encrypt_execute.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-use-ibrs-if-available-before-calling-into-firmware.patch queue-4.15/x86-asm-improve-how-gen_-_suffixed_rmwcc-specify-clobbers.patch queue-4.15/x86-64-realmode-add-instruction-suffix.patch queue-4.15/objtool-fix-another-switch-table-detection-issue.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-move-firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_-from-c-to-cpp.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls-jumps-for-objtool.patch queue-4.15/x86-paravirt-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls.patch queue-4.15/objtool-use-existing-global-variables-for-options.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-use-xorl-for-faster-register-clearing.patch queue-4.15/nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch queue-4.15/lib-bug.c-exclude-non-bug-warn-exceptions-from-report_bug.patch queue-4.15/x86-io-apic-avoid-warning-in-32-bit-builds.patch