Re: [Xen-devel] xsa213 and live patching

[Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/09/2017 08:22 AM, Sarah Newman wrote:
> Has anyone tried to generate a live patch for xsa213 against 4.8? When I try to 
> do so I get errors for common/compat/compat/multicall.o and
> xen/common/multicall.o stating that 'changed section .discard not selected for 
> inclusion'.
>
> I think, but could be mistaken, that the .discard section is not material and 
> should be ignored by create-diff-object. Is this true and if so what is
> the right way of implementing this?
>
> Please keep me CC'ed as I am not currently subscribed.
Hi Sarah,

You are correct that the .discard section is not needed. I had 
previously fixed this but hadn't yet sent out that patch. I've now sent 
this fix along with another to xen-devel.
Regards,
--
Ross Lagerwall

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