[PATCH] arm: module: add support for R_ARM_REL32 relocations

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Fri Jan 20 02:28:12 PST 2017


On 19 January 2017 at 23:56, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:11:32PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Add support for R_ARM_REL32 relocations in the module loader,
>> which will be used by the modversions code when (if) it switches
>> to using relative references to refer to CRC values.
>
> Thanks, please keep this patch handy for when (if) that does happen.
> I won't apply this until it is actually needed - no point adding stuff
> that never gets used (and therefore doesn't get tested.)
>

Fair enough



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