Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:55:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pop previous section in alternative.c |
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But maybe we can see it in the resulting object file somehow, and do the > check there (the same way we do the init-section analysis). I assume the > ..size directive writes some debug info or similar, and we can create a big > warning when a size is unexpectedly huge and crosses section size > boundaries?
I'm not sure how much this would help, but where I saw my red flag was examining the objdump and seeing this:
89: bf 69 00 00 00 mov $0x69,%edi 8e: e8 00 00 00 00 callq 93 <alternatives_smp_module_add+0x30> 8f: R_X86_64_PC32 .rodata+0x8c
A call to .rodata??
-- Steve
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