linux-kernel - [tip:core/objtool] objtool: Don't report end of section error after an empty unwind hint

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Message-ID: <tip-00d96180dc38ef872ac471c2d3e14b067cbd895d@git.kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2017 03:54:56 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jslaby@...e.cz, peterz@...radead.org,
        jgross@...e.com, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        hpa@...or.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...nel.org, luto@...nel.org
Subject: [tip:core/objtool] objtool: Don't report end of section error after
 an empty unwind hint

Commit-ID:  00d96180dc38ef872ac471c2d3e14b067cbd895d
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/00d96180dc38ef872ac471c2d3e14b067cbd895d
Author:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:43:30 -0500
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:39:02 +0200

objtool: Don't report end of section error after an empty unwind hint

If asm code specifies an UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY hint, don't warn if the
section ends unexpectedly.  This can happen with the xen-head.S code
because the hypercall_page is "text" but it's all zeros.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ddafe199dd8797e40e3c2777373347eba1d65572.1505764066.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 tools/objtool/check.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index a0c518e..83f370f 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -1752,11 +1752,14 @@ static int validate_branch(struct objtool_file *file, struct instruction *first,
 		if (insn->dead_end)
 			return 0;
 
-		insn = next_insn;
-		if (!insn) {
+		if (!next_insn) {
+			if (state.cfa.base == CFI_UNDEFINED)
+				return 0;
 			WARN("%s: unexpected end of section", sec->name);
 			return 1;
 		}
+
+		insn = next_insn;
 	}
 
 	return 0;