Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/retpoline,kprobes: Avoid treating rethunk as an indirect jump

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 10:15:47AM +0200, Petr Pavlu wrote:
> Functions can_optimize() and insn_is_indirect_jump() consider jumps to
> the range [__indirect_thunk_start, __indirect_thunk_end] as indirect
> jumps and prevent use of optprobes in functions containing them.

Why ?!? I mean, doing an opt-probe of an indirect jump/call instruction
itself doesn't really make sense and I can see why you'd want to not do
that. But why disallow an opt-probe if there's one in the function as a
whole, but not the probe target?