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An interesting corner case occurs when the byte sequence making up endbr64
ends up on a non-instruction boundary.  Such embedded instructions mark legal
indirect branch targets as far as the CPU is concerned, which aren't legal as
far as the logic is concerned.

When CET-IBT is active, check for embedded byte sequences.  Example failures
look like:

  check-endbr.sh xen-syms Fail: Found 2 embedded endbr64 instructions
  0xffff82d040325677: test_endbr64 at /local/xen.git/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S:28
  0xffff82d040352da6: init_done at /local/xen.git/xen/arch/x86/setup.c:675
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>