linux-kernel - Re: livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations

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Date:	Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:00:19 -0400
From:	Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations

+++ Jiri Kosina [21/03/16 23:02 +0100]:
>On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>
>> According to my test that still results in the literal value of
>> "(64 - 8)".
>
>Alright. But we should be able to special-case it with a two #if checks on
>the __SIZEOF_LONG__ value and BUILD_BUG_ON() when __SIZEOF_LONG__ is not
>of one of the ususal sizes.
>

And while we're at it, we might as well add a BUILD_BUG_ON check for
KSYM_NAME_LEN too, since we are also hard coding that field width, and
we'd like to be alerted if that value ever changes.