linux-kernel - mainline build failure due to fc02735b14ff ("KVM: VMX: Prevent guest RSB poisoning attacks with eIBRS")

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Date:   Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:28:38 +0100
From:   "Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink)" <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: mainline build failure due to fc02735b14ff ("KVM: VMX: Prevent guest
 RSB poisoning attacks with eIBRS")

Hi All,

The latest mainline kernel branch fails to build for x86_64 allmodconfig
with clang and the error is:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c:58:21: error: section attribute is specified on redeclared variable [-Werror,-Wsection]
DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, x86_spec_ctrl_current);
                    ^
./arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h:283:12: note: previous declaration is here
extern u64 x86_spec_ctrl_current;


git bisect pointed to fc02735b14ff ("KVM: VMX: Prevent guest RSB poisoning attacks with eIBRS")

I will be happy to test any patch or provide any extra log if needed.

--
Regards
Sudip