"The whole module_writable_address() nonsense made a giant mess of alternative.c, not to mention it still contains bugs -- notable (sic) some of the CFI variants crash and burn."
"I just love it how this went in without a single x86 maintainer Ack, it broke a bunch of things and then it is still there instead of getting reverted. Let's not do this again please."
"Control Flow Integrity (CFI) is an anti-malware technology aimed at preventing attackers from redirecting the control flow of a program. The change can cause issues on some CFI-enabled setups."
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