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From 81db9dee58bee8b742d365071433ab1c4c185777 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:28:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 090/102] Revert "module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC"

commit 5132ede0fe8092b043dae09a7cc32b8ae7272baa upstream.

This reverts commit 6cfb521ac0d5b97470883ff9b7facae264b7ab12.

Turns out distros do not want to make retpoline as part of their "ABI",
so this patch should not have been merged.  Sorry Andi, this was my
fault, I suggested it when your original patch was the "correct" way of
doing this instead.

Reported-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Fixes: 6cfb521ac0d5 ("module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC")
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: jeyu@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/vermagic.h | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/vermagic.h b/include/linux/vermagic.h
index a3d0493..6f8fbcf 100644
--- a/include/linux/vermagic.h
+++ b/include/linux/vermagic.h
@@ -24,16 +24,10 @@
 #ifndef MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC
 #define MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC ""
 #endif
-#ifdef RETPOLINE
-#define MODULE_VERMAGIC_RETPOLINE "retpoline "
-#else
-#define MODULE_VERMAGIC_RETPOLINE ""
-#endif
 
 #define VERMAGIC_STRING 						\
 	UTS_RELEASE " "							\
 	MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT 			\
 	MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODULE_UNLOAD MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODVERSIONS	\
-	MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC						\
-	MODULE_VERMAGIC_RETPOLINE
+	MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC
 
-- 
2.7.4