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authorSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>2019-07-17 11:06:26 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-11-10 11:21:05 +0100
commit5fc9e98768f72b2643f554ae375b8c3b6ba6513d (patch)
tree27c31e4730ec9185f28b957a1275997aea3e9cab /Makefile
parentd486a86f38dc4a5059ac7c59b735ec81cb2e826a (diff)
kbuild: add -fcf-protection=none when using retpoline flags
[ Upstream commit 29be86d7f9cb18df4123f309ac7857570513e8bc ] The gcc -fcf-protection=branch option is not compatible with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern. The latter is used when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is selected, and this will fail to build with a gcc which has -fcf-protection=branch enabled by default. Adding -fcf-protection=none when building with retpoline enabled prevents such build failures. Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile')
-rw-r--r--Makefile6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6b09890b170c..43d0a98a9fe6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -823,6 +823,12 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=strict-prototypes)
# Prohibit date/time macros, which would make the build non-deterministic
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=date-time)
+# 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
+
# use the deterministic mode of AR if available
KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D)