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| author | Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> | 2021-08-23 01:50:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-07-25 12:26:21 +0300 |
| commit | e8b1128fb0d6aa97420d5012ab9f62ad262f8f77 (patch) | |
| tree | e660d601725e8cd4795e8e982033f1cac41fe627 /tools | |
| parent | 1afa44480b62ef3928cad4e7dea0fe076ae163c8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e8b1128fb0d6aa97420d5012ab9f62ad262f8f77.tar.xz | |
objtool: Make .altinstructions section entry size consistent
commit dc02368164bd0ec603e3f5b3dd8252744a667b8a upstream.
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
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c index b1feb45cf215..99b47720dce9 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c +++ b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ 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"); |