The Indirect Target Selection speculative vulnerability means that indirect
branches (including RETs) are unsafe when in the first half of a cacheline.
This means it's not safe for logic using the stubs to write raw 0xc3's.
Introduce place_ret() which, for now, writes a raw 0xc3 but will contain
additional logic when return thunks are in use.
stub_selftest() doesn't strictly need to be converted as they only run on
boot, but doing so gets us a partial test of place_ret() too.
No functional change.
This is part of XSA-469 / CVE-2024-28956
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2eb1132f79)
Andrew Cooper
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