[PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: module: Emit BTI veneers for cross-section calls

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2026 at 01:05:13PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> This means that calls into a module's .text section from .init.text,
> which may need to be routed via a PLT if .text is out of direct
> branching range, may result in BTI exceptions due to the indirect calls
> performed by the PLT veneers. (Note that calls to .init.text from .text
> are not allowed.)

> The 'solution' is to emit yet another veneer - this is what the ELF
> psABI for AArch64 mandates in this case.

Thanks for doing this - it'd be great to finally get something like this
merged, it's been sitting for far too long.
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