Josh Poimboeuf
b68b990706
objtool: Support conditional retpolines
A Clang-built kernel is showing the following warning: arch/x86/kernel/platform-quirks.o: warning: objtool: x86_early_init_platform_quirks()+0x84: unreachable instruction That corresponds to this code: 7e: 0f 85 00 00 00 00 jne 84 <x86_early_init_platform_quirks+0x84> 80: R_X86_64_PC32 __x86_indirect_thunk_r11-0x4 84: c3 retq This is a conditional retpoline sibling call, which is now possible thanks to retpolines. Objtool hasn't seen that before. It's incorrectly interpreting the conditional jump as an unconditional dynamic jump. Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/30d4c758b267ef487fb97e6ecb2f148ad007b554.1563413318.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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