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arm64: insn: Don't assume unrecognized HINTs are skippable
Currently the kernel assumes that any HINT which it does not explicitly recognise is skippable. This is not robust as new instructions may be added which need special handling, and in any case software should only be using explicit NOP instructions for deliberate NOPs. This has the effect of rendering PAC and BTI instructions unprobeable which means that probes can't be inserted on the first instruction of functions built with those features. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200504131326.18290-4-broonie@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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