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x86/retpoline: Remove the esp/rsp thunk
authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 22:09:34 +0000 (17:09 -0500)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:31:55 +0000 (12:31 +0100)
commit1df37383a8aeabb9b418698f0bcdffea01f4b1b2
treeea64df099e00740c4e153dccc4ad3de8ad630f85
parent3f7d875566d8e79c5e0b2c9a413e91b2c29e0854
x86/retpoline: Remove the esp/rsp thunk

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>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516658974-27852-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S