Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xen/livepatch: Don't crash on encountering STN_UNDEF relocations

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:49:21PM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> 06/14/17 8:34 PM >>>
> >Well - I've got a livepatch with such a relocation.  It is probably a
> >livepatch build tools issue, but the question is whether Xen should ever
> >accept such a livepatch or not (irrespective of whether this exact
> >relocation is permitted within the ELF spec).
> 
> Since the spec explicitly mentions that case, I think we'd better support it.
> But it wouldn't be the end of the world if we didn't, as presumably there
> aren't that many use cases for it.

OK. In that case:

Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>


Andrew,

Do you think it would be possible to generate an test-case for this
in arch/test/livepatch?

> 
> Jan
> 

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