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Revision cc65f1ec192dc54de57483194502e9fa00934c39 authored by H. Peter Anvin on 03 October 2008, 20:00:56 UTC, committed by H. Peter Anvin on 03 October 2008, 20:42:04 UTC
Impact: segfault on build of a 32-bit relocatable kernel

When converting arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c to support unlimited
sections, the computation of sym_strtab in walk_relocs() was done
incorrectly.  This causes a segfault for some people when building the
relocatable 32-bit kernel.

Pointed out by Anonymous <pageexec@freemail.hu>.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Tip revision: cc65f1ec192dc54de57483194502e9fa00934c39 authored by H. Peter Anvin on 03 October 2008, 20:00:56 UTC
x86 setup: correct segfault in generation of 32-bit reloc kernel
Tip revision: cc65f1e
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