The rela groups in the *.fixup sections vary in size. That makes it
more complex to handle in the livepatch_strip_undefined_elements().
It is also unnecessary as the .fixup sections are unlikely to have
any STN_UNDEF symbols anyway.
Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipa...@amazon.de>
---
create-diff-object.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/create-diff-object.c b/create-diff-object.c
index 2f0e162..abf3cc7 100644
--- a/create-diff-object.c
+++ b/create-diff-object.c
@@ -2081,6 +2081,13 @@ static void livepatch_strip_undefined_elements(struct
kpatch_elf *kelf)
if (!is_rela_section(sec))
continue;
+ /* The rela groups in the .fixup sections vary in size.
+ * Ignore them as they are unlikely to have any STN_UNDEF
+ * symbols anyway.
+ */
+ if (strstr(sec->name, ".fixup"))
+ continue;
+
/* only known, fixed-size entries can be stripped */
entry_size = get_section_entry_size(sec->base, kelf);
if (entry_size == 0)
--
2.16.5
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