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On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 04:52:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I also happen to believe that the kCFI code should have entirely
> different targets for direct jumps and for indirect jumps, but that's
> a separate issue. Maybe it already does that?

kCFI is purely about indirect calls.