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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2019-02-28 14:17:50 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-04-03 11:02:24 +0200
commit09f30d83d33029faf6377a86f5ae80a658af9254 (patch)
tree6ba85425fb00f070251d985ba7c0c5e669601393 /tools/objtool/elf.c
parenta4d09dde9093a04a9b48fb9e5ef3177bdfaff199 (diff)
objtool: Handle function aliases
Function aliases result in different symbols for the same set of instructions; track a canonical symbol so there is a unique point of access. This again prepares the way for function attributes. And in particular the need for aliases comes from how KASAN uses them. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool/elf.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/elf.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index b8f3cca8e58b..dd198d53387d 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int read_sections(struct elf *elf)
static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf)
{
struct section *symtab, *sec;
- struct symbol *sym, *pfunc;
+ struct symbol *sym, *pfunc, *alias;
struct list_head *entry, *tmp;
int symbols_nr, i;
char *coldstr;
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf)
return -1;
}
memset(sym, 0, sizeof(*sym));
+ alias = sym;
sym->idx = i;
@@ -288,11 +289,17 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf)
break;
}
- if (sym->offset == s->offset && sym->len >= s->len) {
- entry = tmp;
- break;
+ if (sym->offset == s->offset) {
+ if (sym->len == s->len && alias == sym)
+ alias = s;
+
+ if (sym->len >= s->len) {
+ entry = tmp;
+ break;
+ }
}
}
+ sym->alias = alias;
list_add(&sym->list, entry);
hash_add(sym->sec->symbol_hash, &sym->hash, sym->idx);
}