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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] kallsyms: handle special absolute symbols
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> 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@chromium.org>

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security


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