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Commit f7b93d42 ("arm64/alternatives: use subsections for replacement
sequences") moved the alternatives replacement sequences into subsections,
in order to keep the as close as possible to the code that they replace.

Unfortunately, this broke the logic in branch_insn_requires_update,
which assumed that any branch into kernel executable code was a branch
that required updating, which is no longer the case now that the code
sequences that are patched in are in the same section as the patch site
itself.

So the only way to discriminate branches that require updating and ones
that don't is to check whether the branch targets the replacement sequence
itself, and so we can drop the call to kernel_text_address() entirely.

Fixes: f7b93d42

 ("arm64/alternatives: use subsections for replacement sequences")
Reported-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elise...