x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2 retpoline) commit 3f7d8755 upstream. The generated assembler for the C fill RSB inline asm operations has several issues: - The C code sets up the loop register, which is then immediately overwritten in __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER with the same value again. - The C code also passes in the iteration count in another register, which is not used at all. Remove these two unnecessary operations. Just rely on the single constant passed to the macro for the iterations. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117225328.15414-1-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> (cherry picked from commit 838eee60741a910019fe55d8f1f5f7d4471d62fe) Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
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