On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 01:17:45PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Linus Torvalds > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Wouldn't it be much better to simply do it as part of relocation instead? > > .. except we only do real relocation for modules, and depend on the > linker doing everything for us (handle_relocations() at load-time) I > think. > > So it's somewhat more involved surgery. Which explains the hack. > > Nasty.
Right. With KASLR, the relocations seem to be resolved by handle_relocations(), but without KASLR, they're resolved in vmlinux linking. -- Josh
