Patch "objtool: Add module specific retpoline rules" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

objtool: Add module specific retpoline rules

to the 4.14-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-add-module-specific-retpoline-rules.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:18:28 +0100
Subject: objtool: Add module specific retpoline rules

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>

commit ca41b97ed9124fd62323a162de5852f6e28f94b8 upstream.

David allowed retpolines in .init.text, except for modules, which will trip up objtool retpoline validation, fix that.

---
 scripts/Makefile.build        |    2 ++
 tools/objtool/builtin-check.c |    3 ++-
 tools/objtool/builtin.h       |    2 +-
 tools/objtool/check.c         |    9 +++++++++
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -261,6 +261,8 @@ __objtool_obj := $(objtree)/tools/objtoo
 
 objtool_args = $(if $(CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC),orc generate,check)
 
+objtool_args += $(if $(part-of-module), --module,)
+
 ifndef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
 objtool_args += --no-fp
 endif

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "check.h"
 
-bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline;
+bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline, module;
 
 static const char * const check_usage[] = {
 	"objtool check [<options>] file.o",

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ const struct option check_options[] = {
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "no-fp", &no_fp, "Skip frame pointer validation"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('u', "no-unreachable", &no_unreachable, "Skip 'unreachable instruction' warnings"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('r', "retpoline", &retpoline, "Validate retpoline assumptions"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "module", &module, "Indicates the object will be part of a kernel module"),
 	OPT_END(),
 };
 

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
 
 extern const struct option check_options[];
-extern bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline;
+extern bool no_fp, no_unreachable, retpoline, module;
 
 extern int cmd_check(int argc, const char **argv);
 extern int cmd_orc(int argc, const char **argv);

@@ -1957,6 +1957,15 @@ static int validate_retpoline(struct obj
 		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");

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

queue-4.14/x86-kprobes-fix-kernel-crash-when-probing-.entry_trampoline-code.patch queue-4.14/objtool-fix-32-bit-build.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-objtool-annotate-indirect-jump-in-secondary_startup_64.patch queue-4.14/objtool-add-module-specific-retpoline-rules.patch queue-4.14/x86-retpoline-support-retpoline-builds-with-clang.patch queue-4.14/x86-ldt-avoid-warning-in-32-bit-builds-with-older-gcc.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-reduce-the-code-footprint-of-the-idtentry-macro.patch queue-4.14/objtool-retpolines-integrate-objtool-with-retpoline-support-more-closely.patch queue-4.14/revert-x86-retpoline-simplify-vmexit_fill_rsb.patch queue-4.14/nospec-include-asm-barrier.h-dependency.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-stale-comment-about-kmemcheck.patch queue-4.14/objtool-add-retpoline-validation.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-sme-objtool-annotate-indirect-call-in-sme_encrypt_execute.patch queue-4.14/x86-speculation-use-ibrs-if-available-before-calling-into-firmware.patch queue-4.14/x86-asm-improve-how-gen_-_suffixed_rmwcc-specify-clobbers.patch queue-4.14/x86-64-realmode-add-instruction-suffix.patch queue-4.14/objtool-fix-another-switch-table-detection-issue.patch queue-4.14/x86-speculation-move-firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_-from-c-to-cpp.patch queue-4.14/x86-speculation-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls-jumps-for-objtool.patch queue-4.14/x86-paravirt-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls.patch queue-4.14/objtool-use-existing-global-variables-for-options.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-xorl-for-faster-register-clearing.patch queue-4.14/nospec-kill-array_index_nospec_mask_check.patch queue-4.14/lib-bug.c-exclude-non-bug-warn-exceptions-from-report_bug.patch