Re: [PATCHv2 3/8] arm64: module: rework special section handling

[Miroslav Benes]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Mark Rutland wrote:

> When we load a module, we have to perform some special work for a couple
> of named sections. To do this, we iterate over all of the module's
> sections, and perform work for each section we recognize.
> 
> To make it easier to handle the unexpected absence of a section, and to
> make the section-specific logic easer to read, let's factor the section

s/easer/easier/

> search into a helper. Similar is already done in the core module loader,
> and other architectures (and ideally we'd unify these in future).
> 
> If we expect a module to have an ftrace trampoline section, but it
> doesn't have one, we'll now reject loading the module. When
> ARM64_MODULE_PLTS is selected, any correctly built module should have
> one (and this is assumed by arm64's ftrace PLT code) and the absence of
> such a section implies something has gone wrong at build time.
> 
> Subsequent patches will make use of the new helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

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