From: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>

From: David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk>

Add retpoline compile option in Makefile

Update Makefile with retpoline compile options.  This requires a gcc with the
retpoline compiler patches enabled.

Print a warning when the compiler doesn't support retpoline

[Originally from David and Tim, but hacked by AK]

v2: Use CONFIG option to enable
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.c...@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/Makefile | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 3e73bc255e4e..b02e35350244 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -230,6 +230,17 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
 #
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 
+#
+ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
+       RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern)
+       ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
+               KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE
+               KBUILD_AFLAGS += -DRETPOLINE
+       else
+                $(warning Retpoline not supported in compiler. System may be 
insecure.)
+       endif
+endif
+
 archscripts: scripts_basic
        $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=arch/x86/tools relocs
 
-- 
2.14.3

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