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1. Please describe the problem: Fedora's doesn't build the kernel with Branch Target Identification (https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/pac-bti) annotations and enable enforcement of this for kernel code. 2. What is the Version-Release number of the kernel: N/A 3. Did it work previously in Fedora? If so, what kernel version did the issue *first* appear? Old kernels are available for download at https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 : No 4. Can you reproduce this issue? If so, please provide the steps to reproduce the issue below: Rebuild with `CONFIG_ARM64_BTI_KERNEL` and notice that nothing breaks, except when trying to use modules compiled without BTI. 5. Does this problem occur with the latest Rawhide kernel? To install the Rawhide kernel, run ``sudo dnf install fedora-repos-rawhide`` followed by ``sudo dnf update --enablerepo=rawhide kernel``: N/A 6. Are you running any modules that not shipped with directly Fedora's kernel?: N/A 7. Please attach the kernel logs. You can get the complete kernel log for a boot with ``journalctl --no-hostname -k > dmesg.txt``. If the issue occurred on a previous boot, use the journalctl ``-b`` flag. Reproducible: Always
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2274882 ***