[PATCH 4.14 07/30] objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-08T16:04:35Z

From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

commit e81e0724432542af8d8c702c31e9d82f57b1ff31 upstream.

When compiling the kernel with AS=clang, objtool produces a lot of
warnings:

warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .text
warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .init.text
warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .ref.text

It then fails to generate the ORC table.

The problem is that objtool assumes text section symbols always exist.
But the Clang assembler is aggressive about removing them.

When generating relocations for the ORC table, objtool always tries to
reference instructions by their section symbol offset. If the section
symbol doesn't exist, it bails.

Do a fallback: when a section symbol isn't available, reference a
function symbol instead.

Reported-by: Dmitry Golovin <dima@golovin.in>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/669
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9a9cae7fcf628843aabe5a086b1a3c5bf50f42e8.1585761021.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
tools/objtool/orc_gen.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/objtool/orc_gen.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/orc_gen.c
@@ -98,11 +98,6 @@ 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));
@@ -115,8 +110,32 @@ static int create_orc_entry(struct secti
}
memset(rela, 0, sizeof(*rela));

- rela->sym = insn_sec->sym;
- rela->addend = insn_off;
+ if (insn_sec->sym) {
+ rela->sym = insn_sec->sym;
+ rela->addend = insn_off;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * The Clang assembler doesn't produce section symbols, so we
+ * have to reference the function symbol instead:
+ */
+ rela->sym = find_symbol_containing(insn_sec, insn_off);
+ if (!rela->sym) {
+ /*
+ * Hack alert. This happens when we need to reference
+ * the NOP pad insn immediately after the function.
+ */
+ rela->sym = find_symbol_containing(insn_sec,
+ insn_off - 1);
+ }
+ if (!rela->sym) {
+ WARN("missing symbol for insn at offset 0x%lx\n",
+ insn_off);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ rela->addend = insn_off - rela->sym->offset;
+ }
+
rela->type = R_X86_64_PC32;
rela->offset = idx * sizeof(int);