Re: [PATCH 16/48] objtool/klp: Fix relocation conversion failures for R_X86_64_NONE

Miroslav Benes
2026-04-28T12:43:57Z

On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:03:44 -0700, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> wrote:
> Objtool has some hacks which NOP out certain calls/jumps and replace
> their relocations with R_X86_64_NONE. The klp-diff relocation
> extraction code will error out when trying to copy these relocations due
> to their negative addend, which would only makes sense for a PC-relative
> branch instruction. Just ignore them.
>
>
> [...]

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>

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Miroslav