Commit cad90e53 authored Dec 20, 2022 by Nicholas Piggin Committed by Ingo Molnar Jan 09, 2023

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

parent b7bfaa76

tools/objtool/check.c

+9 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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;