Re: [PATCH 18/20] objtool: Add UACCESS validation

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:23:19PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 07:48:13PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Another thing I need to look at is why objtool only found memset_orig
> > (from __memset) but not memset_erms, which if I read the code right, is
> > a possible alternative there.
> 
> Turns out we only look for sibling calls in the original instruction
> stream, not in any alternatives; which in general seems like a fair
> enough assumption.

And while I'm looking at memset_64.S, why are memset_erms and
memset_orig global functions? At the very least they should be local,
and ideally not even functions.