linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] objtool: remove redundant len value from struct section

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Message-ID: <7ca86dcb-65f8-006b-0628-a79fb4defe40@redhat.com>
Date:   Sat, 21 Aug 2021 21:17:11 -0400
From:   Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
To:     x86@...nel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] objtool: remove redundant len value from struct
 section

On 8/20/21 3:44 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> [ ... snip ... ]
> diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
> [ ... snip ... ]
> @@ -307,8 +307,9 @@ static int decode_instructions(struct objtool_file *file)
>  			insn->offset = offset;
>  
>  			ret = arch_decode_instruction(file->elf, sec, offset,
> -						      sec->len - offset,
> -						      &insn->len, &insn->type,
> +						      sec->sh.sh_size - offset,
> +						      &insn->sec->sh.sh_size,
> +						      &insn->type,
>  						      &insn->immediate,
>  						      &insn->stack_ops);
>  			if (ret)

Nack!  Not sure what I was thinking here.  It was Friday afternoon, so I
probably wans't.

Changing insn->len to insn->sec->sh.sh_size is obviously bogus.  I'll
correct this part of the patch, do better testing and post v3 on Monday.

Thanks to Andy for reporting.
-- 
Joe