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authorJulien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>2020-03-27 15:28:41 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-04-22 10:53:49 +0200
commit7170cf47d16f1ba29eca07fd818870b7af0a93a5 (patch)
tree7fa65b79a922dd157adae22fa8c70f6e022a1086 /tools/objtool
parentobjtool: Clean instruction state before each function validation (diff)
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objtool: Ignore empty alternatives
The .alternatives section can contain entries with no original instructions. Objtool will currently crash when handling such an entry. Just skip that entry, but still give a warning to discourage useless entries. Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/check.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index 5b67d6150a0b..efb964013552 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -905,6 +905,12 @@ static int add_special_section_alts(struct objtool_file *file)
}
if (special_alt->group) {
+ if (!special_alt->orig_len) {
+ WARN_FUNC("empty alternative entry",
+ orig_insn->sec, orig_insn->offset);
+ continue;
+ }
+
ret = handle_group_alt(file, special_alt, orig_insn,
&new_insn);
if (ret)