linux-kernel - Re: vmlinux ELF header sometimes corrupt

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Message-ID: <87sgk5m1ya.fsf@igel.home>
Date:   Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:14:05 +0100
From:   Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev\@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: vmlinux ELF header sometimes corrupt

On Jan 22 2020, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

> So the inode number and mtime/ctime are exactly the same, but for some
> reason Blocks: has changed? This is on an ext4 filesystem, but I don't
> suspect the filesystem to be broken, because it's always just vmlinux
> that ends up corrupt, and always in exactly this way with the first 52
> bytes having been wiped.

Note that the size of the ELF header (Elf32_Ehdr) is 52 bytes.

Andreas.

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