linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] objtool: Add relocation check for alternative sections

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Date:   Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:47:57 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Julien Thierry <jthierry@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] objtool: Add relocation check for alternative
 sections

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 05:51:44PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:33 AM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
> LGTM. Did this actually find anything? And if not, did you verify that
> it would by intentionally creating a bad alternative (perhaps the
> broken one from my patch?)

Yeah, we used your patch while playing with this. Lemme do some builds
with this and see what fires. Nothing should, I would strongly assume.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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