linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] x86: Insert endbr32/endbr64 to vDSO

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:31:34 -0700
From:   "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Shanbhogue, Vedvyas" <vedvyas.shanbhogue@...el.com>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        mike.kravetz@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] x86: Insert endbr32/endbr64 to vDSO

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 3:03 PM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:42 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
>> >>
>> >> When Intel indirect branch tracking is enabled, functions in vDSO which
>> >> may be called indirectly should have endbr32 or endbr64 as the first
>> >> instruction.  We try to compile vDSO with -fcf-protection=branch -mibt
>> >> if possible.  Otherwise, we insert endbr32 or endbr64 by hand to assembly
>> >> codes generated by the compiler.
>> >
>> > Wow, that's... a genuine abomination.  Do we really need to support
>> > CET on kernels built with old toolchains?
>> >
>>
>> Yes.  GCC 7 should be able to build CET kernel.
>>
>
> Why?  Presumably people running distros that use CET are going to have
> kernels build with a CET-supporting compiler.
>

Good point.  It was needed before GCC 8 was released.   We can drop
arch/x86/entry/vdso/endbr.sh now.

-- 
H.J.