Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 fixes for -rc7

Mark Rutland
2022-09-28T10:47:42Z

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 03:43:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 11:28 AM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Please pull these arm64 fixes for -rc7. They're all very simple and
> > self-contained, although the CFI jump-table fix touches the generic
> > linker script as that's where the problematic macro lives.
>
> The commit message is a bit confusing. It talks about "hysterical
> raisins on x86", but CONFIG_CFI_CLANG has always been arm64-only. No?
>
> So I'm not seeing what the x86 comment is about?

It was a an accidental inclusion inthe ARM64 CFI series while x86 CFI support
was being developed; in the thread in the LINK tage, Sami says:

| This was a leftover from an old x86 series, which was included here by
| mistake. Will also asked me about this a couple of weeks ago, I think, and
| said he'd send a patch to remove it.

The relevant message being:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABCJKufrRCb84fafhsR8_fftBLv0_pvufL_ZZieUSTJfhdT+fw@mail.gmail.com/

Thanks,
Mark.