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Date:   Thu, 7 Mar 2019 21:23:19 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/20] objtool: Add UACCESS validation
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 07:48:13PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Another thing I need to look at is why objtool only found memset_orig
> (from __memset) but not memset_erms, which if I read the code right, is
> a possible alternative there.

Turns out we only look for sibling calls in the original instruction
stream, not in any alternatives; which in general seems like a fair
enough assumption.