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>
# change __FILE__ to the relative path from the srctree
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
+# 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)