linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/38] x86/retbleed: Call depth tracking mitigation

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Date:   Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:11:23 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
        Johannes Wikner <kwikner@...z.ch>,
        Alyssa Milburn <alyssa.milburn@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>,
        Joao Moreira <joao.moreira@...el.com>,
        Joseph Nuzman <joseph.nuzman@...el.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/38] x86/retbleed: Call depth tracking mitigation

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:43:37 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> So unless somebody has some one-liner workaround, I really suspect the
> fix is to remove all this. The amount of hackery to make it work in
> the first place is kind of disgusting anyway.
> 
> Since this was a WARN_ONCE(), can you make sure that with this case
> removed, nothing else triggers?

Actually, this fixes it too:

(and this config boots to completion without warnings).

I'll add this to my full test suite and see if it finishes.

-- Steve

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 1f40dad30d50..2dd61d8594f4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ endif
 ifdef CONFIG_RETHUNK
 RETHUNK_CFLAGS		:= -mfunction-return=thunk-extern
 RETPOLINE_CFLAGS	+= $(RETHUNK_CFLAGS)
+export RETHUNK_CFLAGS
 endif
 
 export RETPOLINE_CFLAGS
diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile
index 2e0aa74ac185..fd96ac1617f7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ lkdtm-$(CONFIG_PPC_64S_HASH_MMU)	+= powerpc.o
 KASAN_SANITIZE_rodata.o		:= n
 KASAN_SANITIZE_stackleak.o	:= n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_rodata.o	:= n
-CFLAGS_REMOVE_rodata.o		+= $(CC_FLAGS_LTO)
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_rodata.o		+= $(CC_FLAGS_LTO) $(RETHUNK_CFLAGS)
 
 OBJCOPYFLAGS :=
 OBJCOPYFLAGS_rodata_objcopy.o	:= \