Right now, the state of CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON (and ...ON_FREE...) did not change the assembly ordering of the static branch tests. Use the new jump_label macro to check CONFIG settings to default to the "expected" state, unpessimizes the resulting assembly code. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 059658604dd6..64e911159ffa 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2665,7 +2665,8 @@ static inline void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_MAYBE(CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON, init_on_alloc); static inline bool want_init_on_alloc(gfp_t flags) { - if (static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_alloc) && + if (static_branch_maybe(CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON, + &init_on_alloc) && !page_poisoning_enabled()) return true; return flags & __GFP_ZERO; @@ -2674,7 +2675,8 @@ static inline bool want_init_on_alloc(gfp_t flags) DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_MAYBE(CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON, init_on_free); static inline bool want_init_on_free(void) { - return static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_free) && + return static_branch_maybe(CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON, + &init_on_free) && !page_poisoning_enabled(); } -- 2.20.1