Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kallsyms: handle special absolute symbols

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Mon Mar 17 2014 - 00:40:45 EST


Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> Why not just do this with 0-base-address detection like my v2? That
>>> would mean we don't need to remember to add this flag in the future to
>>> imagined new architectures that might want this 0-based per_cpu
>>> feature.
>>
>> Because future architectures will get this right and emit absolute
>> symbols. I hope!
>>
>> I'm swamped at the moment, but am hoping to investigate that for
>> x86-64. This is a stop-gap.
>
> Okay, I'm convinced. :)
>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks!

Applied, thanks.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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