From 5cc765d69c4faf7dabfa5816add84ee52bc7912b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:28:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC" commit 5132ede0fe8092b043dae09a7cc32b8ae7272baa upstream. This reverts commit 6cfb521ac0d5b97470883ff9b7facae264b7ab12. Turns out distros do not want to make retpoline as part of their "ABI", so this patch should not have been merged. Sorry Andi, this was my fault, I suggested it when your original patch was the "correct" way of doing this instead. Reported-by: Jiri Kosina Fixes: 6cfb521ac0d5 ("module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC") Acked-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com Cc: jeyu@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/vermagic.h | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/vermagic.h b/include/linux/vermagic.h index 853291714ae0..bae807eb2933 100644 --- a/include/linux/vermagic.h +++ b/include/linux/vermagic.h @@ -31,17 +31,11 @@ #else #define MODULE_RANDSTRUCT_PLUGIN #endif -#ifdef RETPOLINE -#define MODULE_VERMAGIC_RETPOLINE "retpoline " -#else -#define MODULE_VERMAGIC_RETPOLINE "" -#endif #define VERMAGIC_STRING \ UTS_RELEASE " " \ MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT \ MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODULE_UNLOAD MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODVERSIONS \ MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC \ - MODULE_RANDSTRUCT_PLUGIN \ - MODULE_VERMAGIC_RETPOLINE + MODULE_RANDSTRUCT_PLUGIN