From e31694e0a7a709293319475d8001e05e31f2178c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:42:28 -0500 Subject: objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable When objtool creates the .altinstructions section, it sets the SHF_WRITE flag to make the section writable -- unless the section had already been previously created by the kernel. The mismatch between kernel-created and objtool-created section flags can cause failures with external tooling (kpatch-build). And the section doesn't need to be writable anyway. Make the section flags consistent with the kernel's. Fixes: 9bc0bb50727c ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls") Reported-by: Joe Lawrence Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6c284ae89717889ea136f9f0064d914cd8329d31.1624462939.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com --- tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/objtool') diff --git a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c index 523aa4157f80..bc821056aba9 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_WRITE, size, 0); + SHF_ALLOC, size, 0); if (!sec) { WARN_ELF("elf_create_section"); -- cgit v1.2.3