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x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel
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With retpolines disabled, some configurations of GCC, and specifically
the GCC versions 9 and 10 in Ubuntu will add Intel CET instrumentation
to the kernel by default. That breaks certain tracing scenarios by
adding a superfluous ENDBR64 instruction before the fentry call, for
functions which can be called indirectly.

CET instrumentation isn't currently necessary in the kernel, as CET is
only supported in user space. Disable it unconditionally and move it
into the x86's Makefile as CET/CFI... enablement should be a per-arch
decision anyway.

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Fixes: 29be86d ("kbuild: add -fcf-protection=none when using retpoline flags")
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Tested-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210128215219.6kct3h2eiustncws@treble
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jpoimboe authored and suryasaimadhu committed Jan 29, 2021
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6 changes: 0 additions & 6 deletions Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -948,12 +948,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=designated-init)
# change __FILE__ to the relative path from the srctree
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)

# ensure -fcf-protection is disabled when using retpoline as it is
# incompatible with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern
ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fcf-protection=none)
endif

# include additional Makefiles when needed
include-y := scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
include-$(CONFIG_KASAN) += scripts/Makefile.kasan
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ else

KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-red-zone
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mcmodel=kernel

# Intel CET isn't enabled in the kernel
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fcf-protection=none)
endif

ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32
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