x86/clang: add retpoline support

Detect whether the compiler supports clang retpoline option and enable
by default if available, just like it's done for gcc.

Note clang already disables jump tables when retpoline is enabled, so
there's no need to also pass the fno-jump-tables parameter. Also clang
already passes the return address in a register always on amd64, so
there's no need for any equivalent mindirect-branch-register
parameter.

Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
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Roger Pau Monne authored and Andrew Cooper committed 2022-02-21 18:17:56 +00:00
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@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ config ARCH_DEFCONFIG
default "arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig"
config CC_HAS_INDIRECT_THUNK
def_bool $(cc-option,-mindirect-branch-register)
def_bool $(cc-option,-mindirect-branch-register) || \
$(cc-option,-mretpoline-external-thunk)
config INDIRECT_THUNK
def_bool y
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@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_INDIRECT_THUNK),y)
CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC) += -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern
CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC) += -mindirect-branch-register
CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC) += -fno-jump-tables
# Enable clang retpoline support if available.
CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG) += -mretpoline-external-thunk
endif
# If supported by the compiler, reduce stack alignment to 8 bytes. But allow
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