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authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>2022-03-18 16:07:47 -0700
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2022-03-22 21:12:13 +0100
commitf6a2c2b2de817078ac5a7e58c10e746165e7825d (patch)
tree27c0524e4ca8afcbe412c0478c916f897a63cb0d /arch/x86
parent262448f3d18959d175b10e28a3b65f41d1d7313f (diff)
downloadlinux-f6a2c2b2de817078ac5a7e58c10e746165e7825d.tar.bz2
x86/Kconfig: Only allow CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT with ld.lld >= 14.0.0
With CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT=y and a version of ld.lld prior to 14.0.0, there are numerous objtool warnings along the lines of: warning: objtool: .plt+0x6: indirect jump found in RETPOLINE build This is a known issue that has been resolved in ld.lld 14.0.0. Prevent CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT from being selectable when using one of these problematic ld.lld versions. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220318230747.3900772-3-nathan@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 921e4ebda564..87579264aa00 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1875,6 +1875,8 @@ config X86_KERNEL_IBT
prompt "Indirect Branch Tracking"
bool
depends on X86_64 && CC_HAS_IBT && STACK_VALIDATION
+ # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/9d7001eba9c4cb311e03cd8cdc231f9e579f2d0f
+ depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 140000
help
Build the kernel with support for Indirect Branch Tracking, a
hardware support course-grain forward-edge Control Flow Integrity