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From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:32:58 -0500
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: Add _etext and __end_of_kernel_reserve
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:25:38PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> FFS you're still missing the point: the question is whether this
> is a widespread issue - a distro shipping this funky binutils and
> therefore it being a problem on potentially more than one environment -
> or something people can only trigger by *specially* building themselves
> and thus a lot more seldom occurrence.
> 
> And I've answered the question myself by booting openSUSE 12.1 - i.e.,
> at least one distro has it.

This is just a misunderstanding on what you were asking to be added
then. I have no objections to noting that popular distros have shipped
with those problematic binutils versions, so keeping them in mind is
important.