From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
"Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:27:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFx5QHfi3X6cxbmXHcxTWfBfxTG33N+kX4Ro=747rnuxtw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu8xPR3axtVEM9f6jX6yAn6bqE-=izNXdEZ7LxP6ZNPnbw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:52 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> It turns out that this odd treatment of absolute symbols (i.e.,
> symbols having section number SHN_ABS) is a known issue in GNU ld
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-05/msg00019.html
Ugh. I hate the GNU linker. It's slow, it does nasty crazy fixups, and
it's apparently buggy too.
I wonder what happened to gold, and why it didn't take over. I'm
assuming it had _other_ bugs.. Oh well.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-18 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-17 19:26 [PATCH v4 0/3] modversions: Fix CRC mangling under CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-17 19:26 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] powerpc/reloc32: fix corrupted modversion CRCs Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-17 19:26 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] powerpc/reloc64: add support for 32-bit CRC pseudo-symbols Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-18 15:30 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-17 19:26 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-17 23:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-18 11:37 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-18 13:52 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-18 18:27 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-01-18 18:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-18 22:37 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-19 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-19 9:22 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-19 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-20 12:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-19 17:01 ` David Laight
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