From: Julien Thierry jthierry@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 7170cf47d16f1ba29eca07fd818870b7af0a93a5 ]
The .alternatives section can contain entries with no original instructions. Objtool will currently crash when handling such an entry.
Just skip that entry, but still give a warning to discourage useless entries.
Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry jthierry@redhat.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes mbenes@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- tools/objtool/check.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c index 4d509734b695..fd3071d83dea 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -801,6 +801,12 @@ static int add_special_section_alts(struct objtool_file *file) }
if (special_alt->group) { + if (!special_alt->orig_len) { + WARN_FUNC("empty alternative entry", + orig_insn->sec, orig_insn->offset); + continue; + } + ret = handle_group_alt(file, special_alt, orig_insn, &new_insn); if (ret)