retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk

Introduce start/end markers of __x86_indirect_thunk_* functions.
To make it easy, consolidate .text.__x86.indirect_thunk.* sections
to one .text.__x86.indirect_thunk section and put it in the
end of kernel text section and adds __indirect_thunk_start/end
so that other subsystem (e.g. kprobes) can identify it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151629206178.10241.6828804696410044771.stgit@devbox
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Masami Hiramatsu
2018-01-19 01:14:21 +09:00
committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 6f41c34d69
commit 736e80a421
3 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -194,6 +194,9 @@ enum spectre_v2_mitigation {
SPECTRE_V2_IBRS,
};
extern char __indirect_thunk_start[];
extern char __indirect_thunk_end[];
/*
* On VMEXIT we must ensure that no RSB predictions learned in the guest
* can be followed in the host, by overwriting the RSB completely. Both