Re: [PATCH v4 04/15] cfi: Add DEFINE_CFI_IMMEDIATE_RETURN_STUB

[Sami Tolvanen]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:50 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:05 AM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This change introduces the DEFINE_CFI_IMMEDIATE_RETURN_STUB macro,
> > which defines a stub function that immediately returns and when
> > defined in the core kernel, always passes indirect call checking
> > with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG. Note that this macro should only be used when
> > a stub cannot be called using the correct function type.
>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Seems like the only use is in patch 5/15. Probably could be squashed...

I would prefer to keep these separate, but if everyone thinks that's
unnecessary, I'm happy to combine them.

Sami