Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] modversions: Fix CRC mangling under CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> writes:

> On 27 October 2016 at 17:27, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>> This series is a followup to the single patch 'modversions: treat symbol
>> CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs', of which two versions have
>> been sent out so far [0][1]
>>
>> As pointed out by Michael, GNU ld behaves a bit differently between arm64
>> and PowerPC64, and where the former gets rid of all runtime relocations
>> related to CRCs, the latter is not as easily convinced.
>>
>> Patch #1 fixes the issue where CRCs are corrupted by the runtime relocation
>> routines for 32-bit PowerPC, for which the original fix was effectively
>> reverted by commit 0e0ed6406e61 ("powerpc/modules: Module CRC relocation fix
>> causes perf issues")
>>
>> Patch #2 adds handling of R_PPC64_ADDR32 relocations against the NULL .dynsym
>> symbol entry to the PPC64 runtime relocation routines, so it is prepared to
>> deal with CRCs being emitted as 32-bit quantities.
>>
>> Patch #3 is the original patch from the v1 and v2 submissions.
>>
>> Changes since v2:
>> - added #1 and #2
>> - updated #3 to deal with CRC entries being emitted from assembler
>> - added Rusty's ack (#3)
>>
>> Branch can be found here:
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/?h=kcrctab-reloc
>>
>> [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147652300207369&w=2
>> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147695629614409&w=2
>
> Ping?

Sorry, you didn't cc linuxppc-dev, so it's not in my patchwork list
which tends to mean I miss it.

Will try and test and get back to you.

cheers