linux-kernel - Re: [GIT pull] x86/pti updates for 4.16

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFyJstnk9Ne-=0Stbo6dPo0nDnkGNJMPEMhP9TdDZ5xeqw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:07:32 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] x86/pti updates for 4.16

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:25 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
>  - Teach objtool about retpolines and add annotations for indirect jumps
>    and calls.

So now we have that

  drivers/watchdog/.tmp_hpwdt.o: warning: objtool: .text+0x24:
indirect call found in RETPOLINE build

upstream.

Is the hpwdt de-crapification patch that was quoted in the discussion
about this monster lined up somewhere?


               Linus