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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Markus <M4rkusXXL@web.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:30:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180116083017.4yb3ej67ll5m5m73@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180116042046.soi3nmveue6utmtc@treble>


* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 01:21:44AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Objtool seg faults when the gold linker is used with
> > > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y and CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y.
> > > 
> > > With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y, the .o file gets passed to the linker before
> > > being passed to objtool.  The gold linker seems to strip unused ELF
> > > symbols by default, which confuses objtool and causes the seg fault when
> > > it's trying to generate ORC metadata.
> > 
> > BTW., if it's still unfixed, could we fix that segfault as well, and turn it into 
> > a more useful failure message?
> 
> Good point.  I'll fix up this seg fault, and the other one
> found/introduced when adding retpoline support.

Thanks!

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-16  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-15 14:17 [PATCH 1/2] objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-15 14:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-16  3:37   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-16  0:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker Ingo Molnar
2018-01-16  4:20   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-16  8:30     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2018-01-16  3:37 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf

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