linux-kernel - [RFC] crypto/sm4: Fix objtool/libelf warning

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Date:   Thu, 7 Oct 2021 22:22:04 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, tianjia.zhang@...ux.alibaba.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org
Subject: [RFC] crypto/sm4: Fix objtool/libelf warning

Hi,

objtool is yielding the obscure libelf warning:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: elf_update: invalid section entry size

Which I tracked down to section:

  [3023] .rodata.cst164    PROGBITS        0000000000000000 1ab501e0 000154 a4  AM  0   0 16

Which has a section size of 0x154 (340) and an entry size of 0xa4 (164).
An obvious mis-match.

>From there, git-grep quickly yields:

  arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx-asm_64.S:.section .rodata.cst164, "aM", @progbits, 164
  arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx2-asm_64.S:.section        .rodata.cst164, "aM", @progbits, 164

So those files create this .rodata section with an explicit entry size,
but then don't respect it themselves. Removing the entry size makes the
warning go away, but I can't tell if that's right or not, given there is
zero clue as to why that entry size was specified to begin with.

Please explain...

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx-asm_64.S b/arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx-asm_64.S
index 18d2f5199194..d089cccf4db7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx-asm_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx-asm_64.S
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 	vpxor tmp0, x, x;
 
 
-.section	.rodata.cst164, "aM", @progbits, 164
+.section	.rodata.cst164, "aM", @progbits
 .align 16
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx2-asm_64.S b/arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx2-asm_64.S
index d2ffd7f76ee2..a0f7541c2246 100644
--- a/arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx2-asm_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sm4-aesni-avx2-asm_64.S
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 	vpxor tmp0, x, x;
 
 
-.section	.rodata.cst164, "aM", @progbits, 164
+.section	.rodata.cst164, "aM", @progbits
 .align 16
 
 /*