linux-kernel - Enabling the ORC unwinder generates invalid .o files.

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:25:08 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Enabling the ORC unwinder generates invalid .o files.

As was discovered last september (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/14/561)
running objtool to generate the orc unwind data will generate invalid
object files on an systems where libelf.so hasn't been patched.

I've just spent a day debugging the same issue - as far as the
corrupted section headers - before managing to get a search tell
me something other than I was running an old distribution.

Since then the orc unwinder has been made the default on x86-64.
So anyone running anything other than the very latest distributions
can't actually build a kernel from sources.
The 'allmodconfig' build goes particularly badly.

It wouldn't be quite as annoying if the build detected the failure
and suggested updating libelf (I found 0.165 to replace 0.153) or
disabling orc.

The kernel build claims to support much older compilers than the
gcc 4.7.3 I'm trying to use, so I'd expect it to compile with
the version of libelf of the same vintage.

Perhaps the solution is to put a copy of (the required parts of)
the libelf sources with the objtool sources so that a known
version is used.
This would also safe the problems that also arise because libelf
isn't installed by default.

	David
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