Re: [PATCH v2 00/39] x86: Kernel IBT

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 09:26:44 -0800
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Damn, I just realized this makes KERNEL_IBT hard depend on KALLSYMS :-(  
> 
> Why should the jump label patching code even care whether there's an
> ENDBR at the jump target?  It should never jump to the beginning of a
> function anyway, right?  And objtool presumably doesn't patch out ENDBRs
> in the middle of a function.

Perhaps Peter confused jump labels with static calls?

-- Steve