Re: [PATCH v6 22/25] x86/asm: annotate indirect jumps

Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-15T20:39:55Z

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:22:16PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:23:41AM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
>
> > It would probably be good to keep LTO and non-LTO builds in sync about
> > which files are subjected to objtool checks. So either you should be
> > removing the OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD annotations for anything that
> > is linked into the main kernel (which would be a nice cleanup, if that
> > is possible),
>
> This, I've had to do that for a number of files already for the limited
> vmlinux.o passes we needed for noinstr validation.

Getting rid of OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD is indeed the end goal, though
I'm not sure how practical that will be for some of the weirder edge
case.

On a related note, I have some old crypto cleanups which need dusting
off.

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Josh