Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:20:58 -0800 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] retpoline/module: Taint kernel for missing retpoline in module |
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> > Also what's the point of putting this information into every symbol? > > It makes it easy to check :)
Easier than nm?
Per symbol still doesn't make any sense to me.
> > > Once per module is good enough. > > > > We already have similar checks for staging etc. > > Sure, but this is more of a "Hey, your version of GCC is doing something > different than what you built the kernel with, watch out!" which is much > more generic and good to know. A whole taint for one CPU bug type seems > overkill to me.
I removed the taint in version 2, posted yesterday. It now just prints the warning and resets the vulnerability reporting in sysfs.
-Andi
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