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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2022-12-20 20:13:23 +1000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2023-01-09 17:53:46 +0100
commitcad90e5381d840cf2296aaac9b3eff71a30b7c5b (patch)
treeb0992c4b51bb596917ddf0ee662e3345a8a1f62e /tools
parentb7bfaa761d760e72a969d116517eaa12e404c262 (diff)
objtool: Tolerate STT_NOTYPE symbols at end of section
Hand-written asm often contains non-function symbols in executable sections. _end symbols for finding the size of instruction blocks for runtime processing is one such usage. optprobe_template_end is one example that causes the warning: objtool: optprobe_template_end(): can't find starting instruction This is because the symbol happens to be at the end of the file (and therefore end of a section in the object file). So ignore end-of-section STT_NOTYPE symbols instead of bailing out because an instruction can't be found. While we're here, add a more descriptive warning for STT_FUNC symbols found at the end of a section. [ This also solves a PowerPC regression reported by Sathvika Vasireddy. ] Reported-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220101323.3119939-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/check.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index 4350be739f4f..4b7c8b33069e 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -427,6 +427,15 @@ static int decode_instructions(struct objtool_file *file)
if (func->type != STT_NOTYPE && func->type != STT_FUNC)
continue;
+ if (func->offset == sec->sh.sh_size) {
+ /* Heuristic: likely an "end" symbol */
+ if (func->type == STT_NOTYPE)
+ continue;
+ WARN("%s(): STT_FUNC at end of section",
+ func->name);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
if (func->return_thunk || func->alias != func)
continue;