objtool, retpolines: Integrate objtool with retpoline support more cl…

…osely

Disable retpoline validation in objtool if your compiler sucks, and otherwise
select the validation stuff for CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y (most builds would already
have it set due to ORC).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Makefile

@@ -489,6 +489,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG_GCC_TC)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG_GCC_TC)
 endif
 
+RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC := -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register
+RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG := -mretpoline-external-thunk
+RETPOLINE_CFLAGS := $(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC),$(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG)))
+export RETPOLINE_CFLAGS
+
 ifeq ($(config-targets),1)
 # ===========================================================================
 # *config targets only - make sure prerequisites are updated, and descend

arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ config GOLDFISH
 config RETPOLINE
 	bool "Avoid speculative indirect branches in kernel"
 	default y
+	select STACK_VALIDATION if HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
 	help
 	  Compile kernel with the retpoline compiler options to guard against
 	  kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding speculative indirect

arch/x86/Makefile

@@ -232,13 +232,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 
 # Avoid indirect branches in kernel to deal with Spectre
 ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
-    RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC := -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register
-    RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG := -mretpoline-external-thunk
-
-    RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC),$(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG)))
-    ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
-        KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE
-    endif
+ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
+  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE
+endif
 endif
 
 archscripts: scripts_basic

scripts/Makefile.build

@@ -267,8 +267,10 @@ else
 objtool_args += $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0405, --no-unreachable)
 endif
 ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
+ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
   objtool_args += --retpoline
 endif
+endif
 
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS