kbuild: add -fcf-protection=none when using retpoline flags

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852110

[ Upstream commit 29be86d7 ]

The gcc -fcf-protection=branch option is not compatible with
-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern. The latter is used when
CONFIG_RETPOLINE is selected, and this will fail to build with
a gcc which has -fcf-protection=branch enabled by default. Adding
-fcf-protection=none when building with retpoline enabled
prevents such build failures.
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Connor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>

Makefile

@@ -839,6 +839,12 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option,-Werror=strict-prototypes)
 # Prohibit date/time macros, which would make the build non-deterministic
 KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option,-Werror=date-time)
 
+# ensure -fcf-protection is disabled when using retpoline as it is
+# incompatible with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern
+ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fcf-protection=none)
+endif
+
 # use the deterministic mode of AR if available
 KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D)