> kimage_load_cma_segment() and kimage_map_segment() both translate
> a CMA segment using page_address(cma), which returns the CMA base
> address. This ignores segment->mem.
>
> On arm64, image_load() adds text_offset to segment->mem before the
> segment is loaded:
>
> kernel_segment->mem += text_offset;
> kernel_segment->memsz -= text_offset;
> image->start = kernel_segment->mem;
That's true, but since commit 751c263bb74f ("arm64: remove TEXT_OFFSET
randomization") TEXT_OFFSET is always zero. This is upstream from v5.8,
so no LTS kernels has non-zero TEST_OFFSET.
Maybe we should rather start deprecating .text_offset in arm64?
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
