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    s390: fix nospec table alignments · c9305b6c
    Josh Poimboeuf authored
    Add proper alignment for .nospec_call_table and .nospec_return_table in
    vmlinux.
    
    [hca@linux.ibm.com]: The problem with the missing alignment of the nospec
    tables exist since a long time, however only since commit e6ed91fd
    ("s390/alternatives: remove padding generation code") and with
    CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n the kernel may also crash at boot time.
    
    The above named commit reduced the size of struct alt_instr by one byte,
    so its new size is 11 bytes. Therefore depending on the number of cpu
    alternatives the size of the __alt_instructions array maybe odd, which
    again also causes that the addresses of the nospec tables will be odd.
    
    If the address of __nospec_call_start is odd and the kernel is compiled
    With CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n the compiler may generate code that loads the
    address of __nospec_call_start with a 'larl' instruction.
    
    This will generate incorrect code since the 'larl' instruction only works
    with even addresses. In result the members of the nospec tables will be...
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