[SRU artful] LP#1758856 -- retpoline hinting support

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Mon Mar 26 15:08:07 UTC 2018


We have been having horrible problems with the retpoline information as
recorded in the ABI changing on every update.  The below pull-request
brings in some new support utilising the upstream retpoline annotations.
As well as bringing in some new annotations where needed.

This should in time bring us to the situation where the retpoline
information for every branch is empty.  Where unannotated entries remain
they are in review and will be coverered off in later updates.  These
are not regressions.

Proposing for SRU to artful.

-apw


The following changes since commit 23155b1c4c2fb5eececde1750aa9ba44a5da614b:

  UBUNTU: Ubuntu-4.13.0-38.43 (2018-03-14 12:45:35 +0100)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.launchpad.net/~apw/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/review retpoline-hints/artful

for you to fetch changes up to 66fe0d8b3604a397c2eef54f9d6058c8b326ccf8:

  UBUNTU: [Config] retpoine -- switch to new format (2018-03-26 11:48:31 +0100)

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  * retpoline hints: primary infrastructure and initial hints (LP: #1758856)
    - [Packaging] retpoline-extract: flag *0xNNN(%reg) branches
    - x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool
    - x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool on 32bit
    - x86/paravirt, objtool: Annotate indirect calls
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- add safe usage hint support
    - [Packaging] retpoline-check -- only report additions
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- widen indirect call/jmp detection
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- elide %rip relative indirections
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- clear hint information from packages
    - KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe
    - KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
    - x86/boot, objtool: Annotate indirect jump in secondary_startup_64()
    - SAUCE: early/late -- annotate indirect calls in early/late initialisation
      code
    - SAUCE: vga_set_mode -- avoid jump tables
    - [Config] retpoine -- switch to new format

  * retpoline: ignore %cs:0xNNN constant indirections (LP: #1752655)
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- elide %cs:0xNNNN constants on i386




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