Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:10:58 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking |
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 01:05:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Any jumps *within* the alternatives should have been handled by the > assembler already. > > And jumps between the alternatives and other places? Why do they exist?
Yap, I say so too, the alternatives handle everything just fine but then Woodhouse appeared... :-)
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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