From 20bf2b378729c4a0366a53e2018a0b70ace94bcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:52:19 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel 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. [ bp: Massage and extend commit message. ] Fixes: 29be86d7f9cb ("kbuild: add -fcf-protection=none when using retpoline flags") Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov Tested-by: Nikolay Borisov Cc: Cc: Seth Forshee Cc: Masahiro Yamada Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210128215219.6kct3h2eiustncws@treble --- Makefile | 6 ------ arch/x86/Makefile | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index e0af7a4a559858..51c2bf34142deb 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -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 diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile index 7116da3980be45..5857917f83eee9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -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