linux-kernel - [tip: objtool/urgent] objtool: Don't add empty symbols to the rbtree

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:23:12 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: objtool/urgent] objtool: Don't add empty symbols to the rbtree

The following commit has been merged into the objtool/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     a2e38dffcd93541914aba52b30c6a52acca35201
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/a2e38dffcd93541914aba52b30c6a52acca35201
Author:        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
AuthorDate:    Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:04:20 -06:00
Committer:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
CommitterDate: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:56:37 -06:00

objtool: Don't add empty symbols to the rbtree

Building with the Clang assembler shows the following warning:

  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for insn at offset 0x16

The Clang assembler strips section symbols.  That ends up giving
objtool's find_func_containing() much more test coverage than normal.
Turns out, find_func_containing() doesn't work so well for overlapping
symbols:

     2: 000000000000000e     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 fgraph_trace
     3: 000000000000000f     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 trace
     4: 0000000000000000   165 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 __fentry__
     5: 000000000000000e     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 ftrace_stub

The zero-length NOTYPE symbols are inside __fentry__(), confusing the
rbtree search for any __fentry__() offset coming after a NOTYPE.

Try to avoid this problem by not adding zero-length symbols to the
rbtree.  They're rare and aren't needed in the rbtree anyway.

One caveat, this actually might not end up being the right fix.
Non-empty overlapping symbols, if they exist, could have the same
problem.  But that would need bigger changes, let's see if we can get
away with the easy fix for now.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
---
 tools/objtool/elf.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index be89c74..f9682db 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -448,6 +448,13 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf)
 		list_add(&sym->list, entry);
 		elf_hash_add(elf->symbol_hash, &sym->hash, sym->idx);
 		elf_hash_add(elf->symbol_name_hash, &sym->name_hash, str_hash(sym->name));
+
+		/*
+		 * Don't store empty STT_NOTYPE symbols in the rbtree.  They
+		 * can exist within a function, confusing the sorting.
+		 */
+		if (!sym->len)
+			rb_erase(&sym->node, &sym->sec->symbol_tree);
 	}
 
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