Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Update section header name check

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On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 10:09:45PM +0530, Mohammad Rafi Shaik wrote:
> 
> On 3/3/2023 3:27 AM, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 08:35:57PM +0530, Mohammad Rafi Shaik wrote:
> > > Update section header name check and corresponding documentation.
> > > Changes since v4:
> > >      -- Rephrase commit message.
> > Asked for clarifications on V4 that were never given to me.  This patchset will
> > not move forward until those have been resolved.
> The present Qualcomm DSP binary contains resource table name as
> ".resource_table.ac_bin_process.",

My questions still haven't been answered:

1. Why do we have to change the kernel because of the way a company specific
tool generates an ELF?

2. Why is the "ac_bin_process" part needed at all?

> so the current logic with strcmp will fail with present comparision  as the
> binary name is not only .resource_table but resource_table.ac_bin_process So
> to overcome this issue we modified the way of checking the resource table
> name to make it generic.
> 
> strstarts(name_table + name, ".resource_table");
> 
> This logic will perform a string comparison with name ".resouce_table"as our
> binary name is .resource_table.ac_bin_process it succeeds
> 
> > > Changes since v3:
> > >      -- Rephrase commit message.
> > > Changes since v2:
> > >      -- Update the commit message with example.
> > >      -- Update the documentation text appropriately.
> > > Changes since v1:
> > >      -- Update the commit message.
> > >      -- Use strstarts instead of strstr.
> > >      -- Update documentation file.
> > > 
> > > Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu (2):
> > >    remoteproc: elf_loader: Update resource table name check
> > >    docs: remoteproc: Update section header name requirement
> > > 
> > >   Documentation/staging/remoteproc.rst       | 5 ++++-
> > >   drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_elf_loader.c | 2 +-
> > >   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 2.25.1
> > > 



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