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From:   Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org>
Date:   Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:55:35 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 02/27] x86: Use symbol name in jump table for PIE support
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:11 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > I assume that's an optimisation done by gcc later.
>
> So why is that change even needed? Where does it break?
>
> > The P modifier in the documentation does state that it is used to
> > generate PIC code.
>
> The documentation says:
>
> "If used for a function, print the PLT suffix and generate PIC code. For
> example, emit foo@PLT instead of =E2=80=99foo=E2=80=99 for the function f=
oo()."
>
> when you use %P for a function. Which is not how it is used here.

I did more checks about that. I think Ard's patch to make jump label
relative actually fixed the issue I had with them.

Thanks for spotting this, I will do additional checks and look at
removing this change.

>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
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