Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] modversions: Fix CRC mangling under CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 15 November 2016 at 09:13, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10 November 2016 at 05:22, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> On 27 October 2016 at 17:27, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> This series is a followup to the single patch 'modversions: treat symbol
>>>> CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs', of which two versions have
>>>> been sent out so far [0][1]
>>>>
>>>> As pointed out by Michael, GNU ld behaves a bit differently between arm64
>>>> and PowerPC64, and where the former gets rid of all runtime relocations
>>>> related to CRCs, the latter is not as easily convinced.
>>>>
>>>> Patch #1 fixes the issue where CRCs are corrupted by the runtime relocation
>>>> routines for 32-bit PowerPC, for which the original fix was effectively
>>>> reverted by commit 0e0ed6406e61 ("powerpc/modules: Module CRC relocation fix
>>>> causes perf issues")
>>>>
>>>> Patch #2 adds handling of R_PPC64_ADDR32 relocations against the NULL .dynsym
>>>> symbol entry to the PPC64 runtime relocation routines, so it is prepared to
>>>> deal with CRCs being emitted as 32-bit quantities.
>>>>
>>>> Patch #3 is the original patch from the v1 and v2 submissions.
>>>>
>>>> Changes since v2:
>>>> - added #1 and #2
>>>> - updated #3 to deal with CRC entries being emitted from assembler
>>>> - added Rusty's ack (#3)
>>>>
>>>> Branch can be found here:
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/?h=kcrctab-reloc
>>>>
>>>> [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147652300207369&w=2
>>>> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147695629614409&w=2
>>>
>>> Ping?
>>
>> Sorry, you didn't cc linuxppc-dev, so it's not in my patchwork list
>> which tends to mean I miss it.
>>
>
> Ah, my mistake. Apologies.
>
>> Will try and test and get back to you.
>>
>

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