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x86/retpoline: Remove the esp/rsp thunk
authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 22:09:34 +0000 (17:09 -0500)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:58:35 +0000 (18:58 +0000)
commit 1df37383a8aeabb9b418698f0bcdffea01f4b1b2 upstream.

It doesn't make sense to have an indirect call thunk with esp/rsp as
retpoline code won't work correctly with the stack pointer register.
Removing it will help compiler writers to catch error in case such
a thunk call is emitted incorrectly.

Fixes: 76b043848fd2 ("x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support")
Suggested-by: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516658974-27852-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/lib/retpoline-export.c
arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S

index fc2f666c110705a9b93638cadf566012fe81ed3a..a17f17f89fee470033466e2e7c4f05fd0a1349f6 100644 (file)
@@ -22,5 +22,4 @@ INDIRECT_THUNK(dx)
 INDIRECT_THUNK(si)
 INDIRECT_THUNK(di)
 INDIRECT_THUNK(bp)
-INDIRECT_THUNK(sp)
 #endif /* CONFIG_RETPOLINE */
index 5e606465e504f27692019af0e7585c30bc37cff1..5242a3b96bf481e125c257b0cb27ab347fbf2ff0 100644 (file)
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_DX)
 GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_SI)
 GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_DI)
 GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_BP)
-GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_SP)
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 GENERATE_THUNK(r8)
 GENERATE_THUNK(r9)