Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:53:06 +0100 (CET) | From | Miroslav Benes <> | Subject | Re: arm: Add livepatch arch specific code |
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> > But apply_relocate_add() is not implemented on arm yet. I guess it would > > nice to have it... otherwise we could get to an unpleasant situation. > > Livepatch module can rely on its livepatching relocations (that is, there > > are some). apply_relocate_add() returns 0 on arm, so everything seems to > > be nice and then boom some time later. > > Doesn't it return -ENOEXEC? MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA is not defined > on arm, I think (see moduleloader.h).
You're right. It confused me too.
> > The question is what happens with normal modules. There are no SHT_RELA > > records probably. > > For arm, I think there are only SHT_REL relocation sections > (MODULES_USE_ELF_REL is set instead of MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA), so > during apply_relocations() in load_module(), only apply_relocate() > should be called, and not apply_relocate_add().
True.
> Hm, I guess that means if we want livepatch support for the > architectures that don't support RELA relocations, we would have to > check if the section is SHT_REL or SHT_RELA before calling the right > apply_relocate* function.
Agreed.
Miroslav
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