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Date:   Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:10:20 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/pti] x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 10:56 -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 04:03:18PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 16:51 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > And the seg fault is objtool's way of telling you you need a
> > > > > ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE above the alternative ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > Except that it blew up when I did this which doesn't have ALTERNATIVE
> > > > (it's the diff I saved :-))
> > > 
> > > Yeah, ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE just tells objtool "don't look at the
> > > alternative; you're not going to like it".
> > > 
> > > If you start putting a __fill_rsb() function out of line somewhere and
> > > only *calling* it from alternatives, then objtool is going to shit
> > > itself when it sees that function, regardless.
> > 
> > Right, if you *really* want it always inline, the short term solution is
> > to just patch it in with X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS.
> 
> And the whole problem here is that patching it in with alternatives is
> painful on kernels < 4.1 because back then, we didn't cope with
> oldinstr and altinstr being different lengths.
> 
> And they don't want to fix *that* because kABI...
> 
> I just stopped caring.

Rightfully so. KABI has often enough proven to be complete garbage. If
people still insist on it, it's _their_ problem not ours.

Thanks,

	tglx
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