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Commit dc023681 authored by Joe Lawrence's avatar Joe Lawrence Committed by Josh Poimboeuf
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objtool: Make .altinstructions section entry size consistent

Commit e31694e0 ("objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable")
aligned objtool-created and kernel-created .altinstructions section
flags, but there remains a minor discrepency in their use of a section
entry size: objtool sets one while the kernel build does not.

While sh_entsize of sizeof(struct alt_instr) seems intuitive, this small
deviation can cause failures with external tooling (kpatch-build).

Fix this by creating new .altinstructions sections with sh_entsize of 0
and then later updating sec->sh_size as alternatives are added to the
section.  An added benefit is avoiding the data descriptor and buffer
created by elf_create_section(), but previously unused by
elf_add_alternative().

Fixes: 9bc0bb50

 ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210822225037.54620-2-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Cc: Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
parent 4d8b3596
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