x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support

Since retpoline capable compilers are widely available, make
CONFIG_RETPOLINE hard depend on the compiler capability.

Break the build when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is enabled and the compiler does not
support it. Emit an error message in that case:

 "arch/x86/Makefile:226: *** You are building kernel with non-retpoline
  compiler, please update your compiler..  Stop."

[dwmw: Fail the build with non-retpoline compiler]

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cca0cb20-f9e2-4094-840b-fb0f8810cd34@default

arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -444,10 +444,6 @@ config RETPOLINE
 	  branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern
 	  support for full protection. The kernel may run slower.
 
-	  Without compiler support, at least indirect branches in assembler
-	  code are eliminated. Since this includes the syscall entry path,
-	  it is not entirely pointless.
-
 config INTEL_RDT
 	bool "Intel Resource Director Technology support"
 	depends on X86 && CPU_SUP_INTEL

arch/x86/Makefile

@@ -220,9 +220,10 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 
 # Avoid indirect branches in kernel to deal with Spectre
 ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
-ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
-  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE
+ifeq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
+  $(error You are building kernel with non-retpoline compiler, please update your compiler.)
 endif
+  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS)
 endif
 
 archscripts: scripts_basic

arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h

@@ -162,11 +162,12 @@
 	_ASM_PTR " 999b\n\t"					\
 	".popsection\n\t"
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(RETPOLINE)
+#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 
 /*
- * Since the inline asm uses the %V modifier which is only in newer GCC,
- * the 64-bit one is dependent on RETPOLINE not CONFIG_RETPOLINE.
+ * Inline asm uses the %V modifier which is only in newer GCC
+ * which is ensured when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is defined.
  */
 # define CALL_NOSPEC						\
 	ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE				\
@@ -181,7 +182,7 @@
 	X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD)
 # define THUNK_TARGET(addr) [thunk_target] "r" (addr)
 
-#elif defined(CONFIG_X86_32) && defined(CONFIG_RETPOLINE)
+#else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
 /*
  * For i386 we use the original ret-equivalent retpoline, because
  * otherwise we'll run out of registers. We don't care about CET
@@ -211,6 +212,7 @@
 	X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD)
 
 # define THUNK_TARGET(addr) [thunk_target] "rm" (addr)
+#endif
 #else /* No retpoline for C / inline asm */
 # define CALL_NOSPEC "call *%[thunk_target]\n"
 # define THUNK_TARGET(addr) [thunk_target] "rm" (addr)

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c

@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static void __init spec2_print_if_secure(const char *reason)
 
 static inline bool retp_compiler(void)
 {
-	return __is_defined(RETPOLINE);
+	return __is_defined(CONFIG_RETPOLINE);
 }
 
 static inline bool match_option(const char *arg, int arglen, const char *opt)

scripts/Makefile.build

@@ -236,10 +236,8 @@ ifdef CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
 objtool_args += --no-unreachable
 endif
 ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
-ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
   objtool_args += --retpoline
 endif
-endif
 
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS