Patch "objtool: Warn on stripped section symbol" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    objtool: Warn on stripped section symbol

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     objtool_Warn_on_stripped_section_symbol.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


Subject: objtool: Warn on stripped section symbol
From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com
Date: Mon Jan 29 22:00:41 2018 -0600

From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com

commit 830c1e3d16b2c1733cd1ec9c8f4d47a398ae31bc

With the following fix:

  2a0098d70640 ("objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker")

... a seg fault was avoided, but the original seg fault condition in
objtool wasn't fixed.  Replace the seg fault with an error message.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc4585a70d6b975c99fc51d1957ccdde7bd52f3a.1517284349.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/objtool/orc_gen.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/objtool/orc_gen.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/orc_gen.c
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ static int create_orc_entry(struct secti
 	struct orc_entry *orc;
 	struct rela *rela;
 
+	if (!insn_sec->sym) {
+		WARN("missing symbol for section %s", insn_sec->name);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	/* populate ORC data */
 	orc = (struct orc_entry *)u_sec->data->d_buf + idx;
 	memcpy(orc, o, sizeof(*orc));


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mingo@kernel.org are

queue-4.15/objtool_Add_support_for_alternatives_at_the_end_of_a_section.patch
queue-4.15/x86entry64_Remove_the_SYSCALL64_fast_path.patch
queue-4.15/x86asm_Move_status_from_thread_struct_to_thread_info.patch
queue-4.15/x86entry64_Push_extra_regs_right_away.patch
queue-4.15/objtool_Warn_on_stripped_section_symbol.patch
queue-4.15/objtool_Improve_retpoline_alternative_handling.patch