[PATCH 2/2] x86/Kconfig: Only allow CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT with ld.lld >= 14.0.0

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Fri Mar 18 2022 - 19:09:26 EST


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.

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/9d7001eba9c4cb311e03cd8cdc231f9e579f2d0f
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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
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