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Diffstat (limited to 'main/grub/grub2-accept-empty-module.patch')
| -rw-r--r-- | main/grub/grub2-accept-empty-module.patch | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/main/grub/grub2-accept-empty-module.patch b/main/grub/grub2-accept-empty-module.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d3d75457dc --- /dev/null +++ b/main/grub/grub2-accept-empty-module.patch @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.com> + +Accept empty modules + +For the Xen platform the all_video.mod module is empty. +With old binutils the .symtab section remained (containing +only section symbols), so the check didn't trigger, but starting +with binutils 2.27 not even a .symtab remains. As there are +also no relocations that's no problem (and that is checked +independendly). +--- grub-2.02~beta3/util/grub-module-verifierXX.c.mm 2016-02-11 10:57:41.000000000 +0000 ++++ grub-2.02~beta3/util/grub-module-verifierXX.c 2016-08-31 15:26:36.000000000 +0000 +@@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ check_symbols (const struct grub_module_ + Elf_Shdr *s = find_section (arch, e, ".moddeps"); + + if (!s) +- grub_util_error ("no symbol table and no .moddeps section"); ++ /*grub_util_error ("no symbol table and no .moddeps section");*/ ++ return; /* An empty module happens for all_video.module for Xen */ + + if (!s->sh_size) + grub_util_error ("no symbol table and empty .moddeps section"); |