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authorJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>2021-08-23 01:50:36 +0300
committerJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2021-10-05 22:03:20 +0300
commitdc02368164bd0ec603e3f5b3dd8252744a667b8a (patch)
tree37bdf201a6df6c0818324c3985a587d22eb5b20d
parent4d8b35968bbf9e42b6b202eedb510e2c82ad8b38 (diff)
downloadlinux-dc02368164bd0ec603e3f5b3dd8252744a667b8a.tar.xz
objtool: Make .altinstructions section entry size consistent
Commit e31694e0a7a7 ("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: 9bc0bb50727c ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls") Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josh 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
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
index bc821056aba9..0893436cc09f 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static int elf_add_alternative(struct elf *elf,
sec = find_section_by_name(elf, ".altinstructions");
if (!sec) {
sec = elf_create_section(elf, ".altinstructions",
- SHF_ALLOC, size, 0);
+ SHF_ALLOC, 0, 0);
if (!sec) {
WARN_ELF("elf_create_section");