Messages in this thread | | | From | Sami Tolvanen <> | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 2021 09:17:52 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 11/15] x86, relocs: Ignore __typeid__ relocations |
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On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 8:31 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:05:27AM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > > From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > > > > The __typeid__* symbols aren't actually relocations, so they can be > > ignored during relocation generation. > > Then what are they? It would be good to add that information here.
These relocations are for compiler-generated constants that it uses for indirect call type checking. I think we can clarify this in the next version.
Sami
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