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diff --git a/common/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-4.9.21/0037-x86-retpoline-Avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-f.patch b/common/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-4.9.21/0037-x86-retpoline-Avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-f.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 846ec86f..00000000
--- a/common/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-4.9.21/0037-x86-retpoline-Avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-f.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-From 72e87893e6f14922dcd6231a7676bac67154dae8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:27:20 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH 37/42] x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init
- functions
-
-(cherry picked from commit 66f793099a636862a71c59d4a6ba91387b155e0c)
-
-There's no point in building init code with retpolines, since it runs before
-any potentially hostile userspace does. And before the retpoline is actually
-ALTERNATIVEd into place, for much of it.
-
-Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
-Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-Cc: karahmed@amazon.de
-Cc: peterz@infradead.org
-Cc: bp@alien8.de
-Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517484441-1420-2-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
-Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
-Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
----
- include/linux/init.h | 9 ++++++++-
- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h
-index e30104c..8e346d1 100644
---- a/include/linux/init.h
-+++ b/include/linux/init.h
-@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
- #include <linux/compiler.h>
- #include <linux/types.h>
-
-+/* Built-in __init functions needn't be compiled with retpoline */
-+#if defined(RETPOLINE) && !defined(MODULE)
-+#define __noretpoline __attribute__((indirect_branch("keep")))
-+#else
-+#define __noretpoline
-+#endif
-+
- /* These macros are used to mark some functions or
- * initialized data (doesn't apply to uninitialized data)
- * as `initialization' functions. The kernel can take this
-@@ -39,7 +46,7 @@
-
- /* These are for everybody (although not all archs will actually
- discard it in modules) */
--#define __init __section(.init.text) __cold notrace __latent_entropy
-+#define __init __section(.init.text) __cold notrace __latent_entropy __noretpoline
- #define __initdata __section(.init.data)
- #define __initconst __section(.init.rodata)
- #define __exitdata __section(.exit.data)
---
-2.7.4
-