Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:55:40 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking |
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:28 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > > > > Make sure we scan all bytes before we decide to optimize the NOPs in > > there. > > Can we also add compile-time checking (presumably in objtool, but who > knows) that there are no relocations in the alternative section?
Cc'ing the overlor^Haded objtool wizard
> Because that was the other "oops, this really doesn't work with > altinstructions" issue, wasn't it?
Yes.
Thanks,
tglx
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