Re: [PATCH v2 35/53] objtool/klp: Create empty checksum sections for function-less object files
Miroslav Benes <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.live-patching,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:08:23 -0700, Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> wrote: > If an object file has no functions, objtool has nothing to checksum, so > it doesn't create the .discard.sym_checksum symbol. > > Then when 'objtool klp diff' reads symbol checksums, it errors out due > to the missing .discard.sym_checksum section. > > Instead, just create an empty checksum section to signal to > read_sym_checksums() that the file has been processed. > > [...] Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <[email protected]> -- Miroslav