A Clang-built kernel is showing the following warning:
arch/x86/kernel/platform-quirks.o: warning: objtool: x86_early_init_platform_quirks()+0x84: unreachable instruction
That corresponds to this code:
7e: 0f 85 00 00 00 00 jne 84 <x86_early_init_platform_quirks+0x84>
80: R_X86_64_PC32 __x86_indirect_thunk_r11-0x4
84: c3 retq
This is a conditional retpoline sibling call, which is now possible
thanks to retpolines. Objtool hasn't seen that before. It's
incorrectly interpreting the conditional jump as an unconditional
dynamic jump.
Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/30d4c758b267ef487fb97e6ecb2f148ad007b554.1563413318.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
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