objtool: Tolerate STT_NOTYPE symbols at end of section
authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:13:23 +0000 (20:13 +1000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 9 Jan 2023 16:53:46 +0000 (17:53 +0100)
commitcad90e5381d840cf2296aaac9b3eff71a30b7c5b
treeb0992c4b51bb596917ddf0ee662e3345a8a1f62e
parentb7bfaa761d760e72a969d116517eaa12e404c262
objtool: Tolerate STT_NOTYPE symbols at end of section

Hand-written asm often contains non-function symbols in executable
sections. _end symbols for finding the size of instruction blocks
for runtime processing is one such usage.

optprobe_template_end is one example that causes the warning:

  objtool: optprobe_template_end(): can't find starting instruction

This is because the symbol happens to be at the end of the file (and
therefore end of a section in the object file).

So ignore end-of-section STT_NOTYPE symbols instead of bailing out
because an instruction can't be found. While we're here, add a more
descriptive warning for STT_FUNC symbols found at the end of a
section.

[ This also solves a PowerPC regression reported by Sathvika Vasireddy. ]

Reported-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220101323.3119939-1-npiggin@gmail.com
tools/objtool/check.c