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Message-ID: <20240904035513.cnbkivqibdklzpw2@treble>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 20:55:13 -0700
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
x86@...nel.org, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@...e.com>,
Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 27/31] objtool: Fix weak symbol detection
On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 10:26:45AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 09:00:10PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > @@ -433,9 +433,13 @@ static void elf_add_symbol(struct elf *elf, struct symbol *sym)
> > /*
> > * Don't store empty STT_NOTYPE symbols in the rbtree. They
> > * can exist within a function, confusing the sorting.
> > + *
> > + * TODO: is this still true?
>
> a2e38dffcd93 ("objtool: Don't add empty symbols to the rbtree")
>
> I don't think that changed.
But see two patches back where I fixed a bug in the insertion of
zero-length symbols.
I was thinking that might actually be the root cause of the above
commit.
--
Josh
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