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Relocations in alternative code can be dangerous, because the code is copy/pasted to the text section after relocations have been resolved, which can corrupt PC-relative addresses. However, relocations might be acceptable in some cases, depending on the architecture. For example, the x86 alternatives code manually fixes up the target addresses for PC-relative jumps and calls. So disallow relocations in alternative code, except where the x86 arch code allows it. This code may need to be tweaked for other arches when objtool gets support for them. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b90b68d093311e4e8f6b504a9e1c758fd7e0002.1581359535.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.