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Commit bbe2df3f authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra
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x86/alternative: Try inline spectre_v2=retpoline,amd



Try and replace retpoline thunk calls with:

  LFENCE
  CALL    *%\reg

for spectre_v2=retpoline,amd.

Specifically, the sequence above is 5 bytes for the low 8 registers,
but 6 bytes for the high 8 registers. This means that unless the
compilers prefix stuff the call with higher registers this replacement
will fail.

Luckily GCC strongly favours RAX for the indirect calls and most (95%+
for defconfig-x86_64) will be converted. OTOH clang strongly favours
R11 and almost nothing gets converted.

Note: it will also generate a correct replacement for the Jcc.d32
case, except unless the compilers start to prefix stuff that, it'll
never fit. Specifically:

  Jncc.d8 1f
  LFENCE
  JMP     *%\reg
1:

is 7-8 bytes long, where the original instruction in unpadded form is
only 6 bytes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.359986601@infradead.org
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