linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: Add _etext and __end_of_kernel_reserve to S

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Message-ID: <20200114163257.GD2536335@rani.riverdale.lan>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:32:58 -0500
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>,
        Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: Add _etext and __end_of_kernel_reserve
 to S_REL

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:25:38PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> FFS you're still missing the point: the question is whether this
> is a widespread issue - a distro shipping this funky binutils and
> therefore it being a problem on potentially more than one environment -
> or something people can only trigger by *specially* building themselves
> and thus a lot more seldom occurrence.
> 
> And I've answered the question myself by booting openSUSE 12.1 - i.e.,
> at least one distro has it.

This is just a misunderstanding on what you were asking to be added
then. I have no objections to noting that popular distros have shipped
with those problematic binutils versions, so keeping them in mind is
important.