Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Off-by-two bug when relocating GOT

Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:

Vlad Lungu wrote:

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The first two entries are skipped but the number of relocated entries is not adjusted; as a result, the first __u_boot_cmd_* structure is smashed and no commands can be issued.

This is a known, long stading, pretty critical, but not fixed problem. See below:

http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot&...

I'm going to look closely into this.

The thing I don't get is why skip the top two entries in the first place? Is it because _gp=ALIGN(16) ? Maybe Robert has a point:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/25533

Vlad