Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: livepatch: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32 | From | "chengjian (D)" <> | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:29:11 +0800 |
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Hi,Jiri
This patch should be merged into 4.4 stable,
which still use klp_write_module_reloc.
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.4.174/source/arch/x86/kernel/livepatch.c
ZeFeng may have sent a stable(4.4-y) patch to the wrong mail-list(mainline).
Thanks.
On 2019/2/15 15:28, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, chenzefeng (A) wrote: > >> On x86-64, for 32-bit PC-relacive branches, we can generate PLT32 >> relocation, instead of PC32 relocation. and R_X86_64_PLT32 can be >> treated the same as R_X86_64_PC32 since linux kernel doesn't use PLT. >> >> In linux 4.4 commit b21ebf2fb4cd ("x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as >> R_X86_64_PC32") been fixed for the module loading, but not fixed for >> livepatch relocation, which will fail to load livepatch with the error >> message as follow: relocation failed for symbol <symbol name> at <symbol >> address> >> >> Signed-off-by: chenzefeng <chenzefeng2@huawei.com> > What kernel version is this patch based on? We've got rid of x86-specific > module loading stub and offloaded all the relocation handling to generic > kmod loader long time ago. >
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