Re: modutils bug? 'if' clause executes incorrectly

[Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com>]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:57:31 +0200, 
Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> wrote:
>I think in your module the following jump gets misstreated:
>
>  90:   0800002d        j       b4 <init_module+ac>
>                        90: R_MIPS_26   .text
>
>But older modutils - including the modutils-2.1.121-12lm.src.rpm package
>from oss - do this:
>
>      *loc = (*loc & ~0x03ffffff) | ((*loc & 0x03ffffff) + (v >> 2));
>
>which is different - and wrong.

Would that be this entry in the change log from 1998?

Tue Nov  3 22:26:18 MET 1998  Ralf Baechle  <ralf@gnu.org>

        * obj/obj_mips.c (arch_apply_relocation): Fix application of R_MIPS_26
        relocations.

Thanks for tracking the problem down.  I really, *really* want to kill
people using modutils 2.1.121 on current kernels.