Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Waiman Long <> | Subject | [PATCH] x86/retpoline: Remove the esp/rsp thunk | Date | Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:09:34 -0500 |
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It doesn't make sense to have an indirect call thunk with esp/rsp as retpoline code won't work correctly with the stack pointer register. Removing it will help compiler writers to catch error in case such a thunk call is emitted incorrectly.
Fixes: 76b043848fd2 ("x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support") Suggested-by: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 1 - arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h index 0927cdc..1908214 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h @@ -38,5 +38,4 @@ INDIRECT_THUNK(si) INDIRECT_THUNK(di) INDIRECT_THUNK(bp) -INDIRECT_THUNK(sp) #endif /* CONFIG_RETPOLINE */ diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S b/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S index dfb2ba9..c909961 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S +++ b/arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_DX) GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_SI) GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_DI) GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_BP) -GENERATE_THUNK(_ASM_SP) #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT GENERATE_THUNK(r8) GENERATE_THUNK(r9) -- 1.8.3.1
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