From: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org
commit 291073a566b2094c7192872cc0f17ce73d83cb76 upstream.
The recent change to make objtool aware of more symbol relocation types (commit 24ff65257375: "objtool: Teach get_alt_entry() about more relocation types") also added another check, and resulted in this objtool warning when building kvm on x86:
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.o: warning: objtool: __ex_table+0x4: don't know how to handle reloc symbol type: kvm_fastop_exception
The reason seems to be that kvm_fastop_exception() is marked as a global symbol, which causes the relocation to ke kept around for objtool. And at the same time, the kvm_fastop_exception definition (which is done as an inline asm statement) doesn't actually set the type of the global, which then makes objtool unhappy.
The minimal fix is to just not mark kvm_fastop_exception as being a global symbol. It's only used in that one compilation unit anyway, so it was always pointless. That's how all the other local exception table labels are done.
I'm not entirely happy about the kinds of games that the kvm code plays with doing its own exception handling, and the fact that it confused objtool is most definitely a symptom of the code being a bit too subtle and ad-hoc. But at least this trivial one-liner makes objtool no longer upset about what is going on.
Fixes: 24ff65257375 ("objtool: Teach get_alt_entry() about more relocation types") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiZwq-0LknKhXN4M+T8jbxn_2i9mcKpO+OaBSSq_E... Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Cc: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov vkuznets@redhat.com Cc: Wanpeng Li wanpengli@tencent.com Cc: Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com Cc: Joerg Roedel joro@8bytes.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c @@ -452,7 +452,6 @@ static int fastop(struct x86_emulate_ctx ".skip " __stringify(SETCC_ALIGN) " - (.-" #op "), 0xcc \n\t"
asm(".pushsection .fixup, "ax"\n" - ".global kvm_fastop_exception \n" "kvm_fastop_exception: xor %esi, %esi; " ASM_RET ".popsection");