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retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:14:21 +0000 (01:14 +0900)
committerJack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
Thu, 8 Feb 2018 18:13:39 +0000 (10:13 -0800)
commit7eb3657be082eef8bed465a39787a64fc0f656cc
tree5b889c89a2642de5eafef6ed66c49f2354d73c2a
parentc7e7f9258186b53840f1c62104db19acfc2c1fbb
retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk

commit 736e80a4213e9bbce40a7c050337047128b472ac upstream.

Introduce start/end markers of __x86_indirect_thunk_* functions.
To make it easy, consolidate .text.__x86.indirect_thunk.* sections
to one .text.__x86.indirect_thunk section and put it in the
end of kernel text section and adds __indirect_thunk_start/end
so that other subsystem (e.g. kprobes) can identify it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151629206178.10241.6828804696410044771.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 799dc737680a8074a0c7c2d3426b85f4c439377f)
Orabug: 27477743
CVE: CVE-2017-5715
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S