Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:06:02 -0600 | From | Josh Poimboeuf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/retpoline: Fix return buffer filling |
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 04:04:22PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > An earlier patch moved the RSB filling out of line, ending > it with a return. This results in the return buffer filling > only giving 15 instead of 16 usable returns because > the return from fill_rsb already uses one up. > > Since the kernel call chains can be quite deep that's > somewhat dangerous and better avoided. > > Always do one extra return buffer fill in the caller. > I added a STUFF_ONE_RSB macro for this, and fixed > up all the caller > > An alternative would be to revert 1dde7415e999 > and just go back to the inline version. > > Needs the earlier patch to avoid lots of bogus warnings > from objtool, but even with that there is one left. > > Fixes: 1dde7415e999 ("x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit...") > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Instead of patch 1/2, the alternatives need to be annotated like:
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h index af0ca73abb23..4deeb869ab83 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ .macro FILL_RETURN_BUFFER nr:req ftr:req #ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE ALTERNATIVE "", "call __clear_rsb" , \ftr + ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVE "", "STUFF_ONE_RSB", \ftr #endif .endm @@ -178,7 +179,7 @@ extern char __indirect_thunk_end[]; static inline void vmexit_fill_RSB(void) { #ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE - alternative_input("", + alternative_input(ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE, "call __fill_rsb;" STUFF_ONE_RSB, X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE, ASM_NO_INPUT_CLOBBER(_ASM_BX, "memory"));
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