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x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions
authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:42:11 +0000 (11:42 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 10:03:54 +0000 (11:03 +0100)
commitb98197294b48051b3499d764ff0c6ccd40783fc8
tree62e96bd48e04587268320da3b856b5ab2d852cc0
parent355e059499da0eca1cd550ffcb3136f442dc7df8
x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions

(cherry picked from commit 66f793099a636862a71c59d4a6ba91387b155e0c)

There's no point in building init code with retpolines, since it runs before
any potentially hostile userspace does. And before the retpoline is actually
ALTERNATIVEd into place, for much of it.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: karahmed@amazon.de
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517484441-1420-2-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
[jwang: port to 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/init.h