linux/tools/objtool
Josh Poimboeuf c8a5496bc7 objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation
commit e81e072443 upstream.

When compiling the kernel with AS=clang, objtool produces a lot of
warnings:

  warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .text
  warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .init.text
  warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .ref.text

It then fails to generate the ORC table.

The problem is that objtool assumes text section symbols always exist.
But the Clang assembler is aggressive about removing them.

When generating relocations for the ORC table, objtool always tries to
reference instructions by their section symbol offset.  If the section
symbol doesn't exist, it bails.

Do a fallback: when a section symbol isn't available, reference a
function symbol instead.

Reported-by: Dmitry Golovin <dima@golovin.in>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/669
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9a9cae7fcf628843aabe5a086b1a3c5bf50f42e8.1585761021.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-11-01 12:01:01 +01:00
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Documentation
arch/x86
.gitignore
Build
Makefile
arch.h
builtin-check.c
builtin-orc.c
builtin.h
cfi.h
check.c
check.h
elf.c
elf.h
objtool.c
orc.h
orc_dump.c
orc_gen.c objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation 2020-11-01 12:01:01 +01:00
special.c
special.h
sync-check.sh
warn.h