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Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:57:01 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org>
Cc:     kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, kristen@linux.intel.com,
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        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 11/11] x86/alternatives: Adapt assembly for PIE support
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:12:55PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Change the assembly options to work with pointers instead of integers.

This commit message is too vague. A before/after example would make it a
lot more clear why the change is needed.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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