[PATCH 5.10 037/148] objtool: Fix .symtab_shndx handling for elf_create_undef_symbol()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-23T10:01:04Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit 584fd3b31889852d0d6f3dd1e3d8e9619b660d2c upstream.

When an ELF object uses extended symbol section indexes (IOW it has a
.symtab_shndx section), these must be kept in sync with the regular
symbol table (.symtab).

So for every new symbol we emit, make sure to also emit a
.symtab_shndx value to keep the arrays of equal size.

Note: since we're writing an UNDEF symbol, most GElf_Sym fields will
be 0 and we can repurpose one (st_size) to host the 0 for the xshndx
value.

Fixes: 2f2f7e47f052 ("objtool: Add elf_create_undef_symbol()")
Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YL3q1qFO9QIRL/BA@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
tools/objtool/elf.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ static int elf_add_string(struct elf *el

struct symbol *elf_create_undef_symbol(struct elf *elf, const char *name)
{
- struct section *symtab;
+ struct section *symtab, *symtab_shndx;
struct symbol *sym;
Elf_Data *data;
Elf_Scn *s;
@@ -819,6 +819,29 @@ struct symbol *elf_create_undef_symbol(s
symtab->len += data->d_size;
symtab->changed = true;

+ symtab_shndx = find_section_by_name(elf, ".symtab_shndx");
+ if (symtab_shndx) {
+ s = elf_getscn(elf->elf, symtab_shndx->idx);
+ if (!s) {
+ WARN_ELF("elf_getscn");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ data = elf_newdata(s);
+ if (!data) {
+ WARN_ELF("elf_newdata");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ data->d_buf = &sym->sym.st_size; /* conveniently 0 */
+ data->d_size = sizeof(Elf32_Word);
+ data->d_align = 4;
+ data->d_type = ELF_T_WORD;
+
+ symtab_shndx->len += 4;
+ symtab_shndx->changed = true;
+ }
+
sym->sec = find_section_by_index(elf, 0);

elf_add_symbol(elf, sym);