Re: [PATCH 4.9 85/96] x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support

[gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 11:21:08PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > > http://git.infradead.org/retpoline-stable.git/shortlog/refs/heads/linux-4.4.y
> > 
> > And I've now queued up all of these patches, thanks very much for doing
> > this work!
> 
> The patch below is needed on top of it, otherwise if CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is 
> enabled, all the _thunk symbols end up with 0x0 checksum and fail to load 
> due to mismatch.
> 
> 	0x00000000      __x86_indirect_thunk_rcx        vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL
> 
> so please consider queuing it on top; I am queuing it in SLE12 codestreams 
> now.

Many thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h