linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.15 31/89] objtool: skip non-text sections when adding return-thunk sites

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Message-Id: <20220722091135.107383937@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 22 Jul 2022 11:11:05 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15 31/89] objtool: skip non-text sections when adding return-thunk sites

From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>

The .discard.text section is added in order to reserve BRK, with a
temporary function just so it can give it a size. This adds a relocation to
the return thunk, which objtool will add to the .return_sites section.
Linking will then fail as there are references to the .discard.text
section.

Do not add instructions from non-text sections to the list of return thunk
calls, avoiding the reference to .discard.text.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 tools/objtool/check.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -1153,7 +1153,9 @@ static void add_return_call(struct objto
 	insn->type = INSN_RETURN;
 	insn->retpoline_safe = true;
 
-	list_add_tail(&insn->call_node, &file->return_thunk_list);
+	/* Skip the non-text sections, specially .discard ones */
+	if (insn->sec->text)
+		list_add_tail(&insn->call_node, &file->return_thunk_list);
 }
 
 /*