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x86/Kconfig: Clean up LLVM version checks in IBT configurations
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:31:42 +0000 (18:31 -0700)
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:10:39 +0000 (13:10 +0200)
The minimum supported version of LLVM for building the x86 kernel
was bumped to 15.0.0 in

  7861640aac52 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0"),

so the checks for Clang 14.0.0 and ld.lld 14.0.0 or newer will always been
true. Clean them up.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250814-x86-min-ver-cleanups-v1-6-ff7f19457523@kernel.org
arch/x86/Kconfig

index 58d890fe2100eb6990880bcf5ba600cdefb0a7d1..85b91267c01ce7cddaf7d662b5d4c753779ea7dc 100644 (file)
@@ -1753,11 +1753,7 @@ config X86_UMIP
 config CC_HAS_IBT
        # GCC >= 9 and binutils >= 2.29
        # Retpoline check to work around https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93654
-       # Clang/LLVM >= 14
-       # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/e0b89df2e0f0130881bf6c39bf31d7f6aac00e0f
-       # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/dfcf69770bc522b9e411c66454934a37c1f35332
-       def_bool ((CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option, -fcf-protection=branch -mindirect-branch-register)) || \
-                 (CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 140000)) && \
+       def_bool ((CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option, -fcf-protection=branch -mindirect-branch-register)) || CC_IS_CLANG) && \
                  $(as-instr,endbr64)
 
 config X86_CET
@@ -1769,8 +1765,6 @@ config X86_KERNEL_IBT
        prompt "Indirect Branch Tracking"
        def_bool y
        depends on X86_64 && CC_HAS_IBT && HAVE_OBJTOOL
-       # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/9d7001eba9c4cb311e03cd8cdc231f9e579f2d0f
-       depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 140000
        select OBJTOOL
        select X86_CET
        help