From b8b9ce4b5aec8de9e23cabb0a26b78641f9ab1d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:13:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86/retpoline: Remove compile time warning Remove the compile time warning when CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y and the compiler does not have retpoline support. Linus rationale for this is: It's wrong because it will just make people turn off RETPOLINE, and the asm updates - and return stack clearing - that are independent of the compiler are likely the most important parts because they are likely the ones easiest to target. And it's annoying because most people won't be able to do anything about it. The number of people building their own compiler? Very small. So if their distro hasn't got a compiler yet (and pretty much nobody does), the warning is just annoying crap. It is already properly reported as part of the sysfs interface. The compile-time warning only encourages bad things. Fixes: 76b043848fd2 ("x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support") Requested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzWgquv4i6Mab6bASqYXg3ErV3XDFEYf=GEcCDQg5uAtw@mail.gmail.com --- arch/x86/Makefile | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile index 974c61864978c4..504b1a4535acaa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -240,8 +240,6 @@ ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE RETPOLINE_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register) ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE - else - $(warning CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y, but not supported by the compiler. Toolchain update recommended.) endif endif