[PATCH v6 22/25] x86/asm: annotate indirect jumps
Kees Cook
keescook at chromium.org
Wed Oct 14 18:46:59 EDT 2020
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 05:32:00PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> Running objtool --vmlinux --duplicate on vmlinux.o produces a few
> warnings about indirect jumps with retpoline:
>
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: wakeup_long64()+0x61: indirect jump
> found in RETPOLINE build
> ...
>
> This change adds ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE annotations to the jumps
> in assembly code to stop the warnings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
This looks like it's an independent fix -- can an x86 maintainer pick
up this patch directly?
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Kees Cook
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