Merge branch 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar: "This is a series from Peter Zijlstra that adds x86 build-time uaccess validation of SMAP to objtool, which will detect and warn about the following uaccess API usage bugs and weirdnesses: - call to %s() with UACCESS enabled - return with UACCESS enabled - return with UACCESS disabled from a UACCESS-safe function - recursive UACCESS enable - redundant UACCESS disable - UACCESS-safe disables UACCESS As it turns out not leaking uaccess permissions outside the intended uaccess functionality is hard when the interfaces are complex and when such bugs are mostly dormant. As a bonus we now also check the DF flag. We had at least one high-profile bug in that area in the early days of Linux, and the checking is fairly simple. The checks performed and warnings emitted are: - call to %s() with DF set - return with DF set - return with ...
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