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objtool: Improve retpoline alternative handling
Currently objtool requires all retpolines to be: a) patched in with alternatives; and b) annotated with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE. If you forget to do both of the above, objtool segfaults trying to dereference a NULL 'insn->call_dest' pointer. Avoid that situation and print a more helpful error message: quirks.o: warning: objtool: efi_delete_dummy_variable()+0x99: unsupported intra-function call quirks.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE. Future improvements can be made to make objtool smarter with respect to retpolines, but this is a good incremental improvement for now. Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/819e50b6d9c2e1a22e34c1a636c0b2057cc8c6e5.1517284349.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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