Thread (232 messages) 232 messages, 19 authors, 2018-02-08
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[PATCH 4.14 004/159] x86/head: Remove unused bad_address code

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2017-12-22 08:58:38
Also in: lkml

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Josh Poimboeuf <redacted>

commit a8b88e84d124bc92c4808e72b8b8c0e0bb538630 upstream.

It's no longer possible for this code to be executed, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <redacted>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <redacted>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/32a46fe92d2083700599b36872b26e7dfd7b7965.1505764066.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -266,9 +266,6 @@ ENDPROC(start_cpu0)
 	.quad  init_thread_union + THREAD_SIZE - SIZEOF_PTREGS
 	__FINITDATA
 
-bad_address:
-	jmp bad_address
-
 	__INIT
 ENTRY(early_idt_handler_array)
 	i = 0
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