This series is a followup to the single patch 'modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs', of which two versions have been sent out so far [0][1]
As pointed out by Michael, GNU ld behaves a bit differently between arm64 and PowerPC64, and where the former gets rid of all runtime relocations related to CRCs, the latter is not as easily convinced. Patch #1 fixes the issue where CRCs are corrupted by the runtime relocation routines for 32-bit PowerPC, for which the original fix was effectively reverted by commit 0e0ed6406e61 ("powerpc/modules: Module CRC relocation fix causes perf issues") Patch #2 adds handling of R_PPC64_ADDR32 relocations against the NULL .dynsym symbol entry to the PPC64 runtime relocation routines, so it is prepared to deal with CRCs being emitted as 32-bit quantities. Patch #3 is the original patch from the v1 and v2 submissions. Changes since v2: - added #1 and #2 - updated #3 to deal with CRC entries being emitted from assembler - added Rusty's ack (#3) Branch can be found here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/?h=kcrctab-reloc [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147652300207369&w=2 [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147695629614409&w=2 Ard Biesheuvel (3): powerpc/reloc32: fix corrupted modversion CRCs powerpc/reloc64: add support for 32-bit CRC pseudo-symbols modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h | 4 -- arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 8 ---- arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_32.S | 36 +++++++++++++-- arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S | 22 +++++++-- arch/powerpc/relocs_check.sh | 3 +- include/asm-generic/export.h | 7 +-- include/linux/export.h | 8 ++++ include/linux/module.h | 14 +++--- kernel/module.c | 47 +++++++------------- 9 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4