mips hi16/lo16 reloc handling

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@orcam.me.uk
Wed Nov 5 02:48:30 GMT 2025


On Tue, 19 Dec 2023, Alan Modra wrote:

> In May this year I posted a patch to move the list of hi16 relocs from
> per-file data to per-section data, where it makes more sense and is
> not vunerable to fuzzed object file attacks.
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2023-May/127534.html and
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2023-May/127535.html
> These incorporated the results of an earlier discussion in February.

 I have posted updated series at 
<https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/alpine.DEB.2.21.2511012204090.1185@angie.orcam.me.uk/> 
now, with the COFF change omitted for now as low priority (you need some 
effort to trigger the affected COFF code nowadays and it won't happen in 
standard usage).  Thank you for your patience.

  Maciej


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