Re: [patch 10/20] kallsyms: fix absolute addresses for kASLR

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Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> What is "the x86 relocs tool"?
>
> arch/x86/tools/relocs.c is used to generate relocation information on
> x86-32 (always) and x86-64 (under kASLR). It deals with all kinds of
> weird special cases that various linkers do differently. I'm glad I
> didn't have to touch this code again. :)

Well, let's fix it!

Making these symbols absolute seems like the Right Thing.  We can work
around it for the moment but I'll look at that once we have a minimal
fix for now (see other thread).

Thanks,
Rusty.
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