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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> | 2026-04-03 14:53:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> | 2026-05-04 21:16:01 -0700 |
| commit | 62a7a01fde87c99926cd7e9670b4226c4c79ebaf (patch) | |
| tree | 676d889b3c45c0f2ab6a530371d631f318efd649 /tools/objtool | |
| parent | 479ac5260e7ea717f1ea7b1e74dfe807d3b46eda (diff) | |
objtool/klp: Fix extraction of text annotations for alternatives
Objtool is failing to extract text annotations which reference
.altinstr_replacement instructions:
1) Alternative replacement fake symbols are NOTYPE rather than FUNC,
and they don't have sym->included set, thus they aren't recognized
by should_keep_special_sym().
2) .discard.annotate_insn gets processed before .altinstr_replacement,
so the referenced (fake) symbols don't have clones yet.
Fix the first issue by checking for a valid clone instead of
sym->included and by accepting NOTYPE symbols when processing
.discard.annotate_insn.
Fix the second issue by deferring text annotation processing until after
the other special sections have been cloned.
Fixes: dd590d4d57eb ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/objtool/klp-diff.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c index 17a6146b9406..42970b38728f 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c +++ b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c @@ -1437,6 +1437,7 @@ entsize: /* Keep a special section entry if it references an included function */ static bool should_keep_special_sym(struct elf *elf, struct symbol *sym) { + bool annotate_insn = !strcmp(sym->sec->name, ".discard.annotate_insn"); struct reloc *reloc; if (is_sec_sym(sym) || !sym->sec->rsec) @@ -1446,7 +1447,16 @@ static bool should_keep_special_sym(struct elf *elf, struct symbol *sym) if (convert_reloc_sym(elf, reloc)) continue; - if (is_func_sym(reloc->sym) && reloc->sym->included) + if (!reloc->sym->clone || is_undef_sym(reloc->sym->clone)) + continue; + + /* + * Keep special section references to cloned functions. + * In some cases annotate_insn can also reference cloned alt + * replacement fake symbols; keep those references as well. + */ + if (is_func_sym(reloc->sym) || + (annotate_insn && is_notype_sym(reloc->sym))) return true; } @@ -1590,15 +1600,28 @@ static int clone_special_section(struct elfs *e, struct section *patched_sec) /* Extract only the needed bits from special sections */ static int clone_special_sections(struct elfs *e) { - struct section *patched_sec; + struct section *sec, *annotate_insn = NULL; - for_each_sec(e->patched, patched_sec) { - if (is_special_section(patched_sec)) { - if (clone_special_section(e, patched_sec)) + for_each_sec(e->patched, sec) { + if (is_special_section(sec)) { + if (!strcmp(sec->name, ".discard.annotate_insn")) { + annotate_insn = sec; + continue; + } + if (clone_special_section(e, sec)) return -1; } } + /* + * Do .discard.annotate_insn last, it can reference other special + * sections (alt replacements) so they need to be cloned first. + */ + if (annotate_insn) { + if (clone_special_section(e, annotate_insn)) + return -1; + } + return 0; } |
