linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: new objtool warnings

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Message-ID: <20251103091006.GV3245006@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 10:10:06 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: new objtool warnings

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 11:15:15AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My x86_64 allmodconfig builds started producing these warnings today:
> 
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: user_exc_vmm_communication+0x15a: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: exc_debug_user+0x182: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: exc_int3+0x123: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: noist_exc_machine_check+0x17a: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: fred_exc_machine_check+0x17e: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
> 
> I can't easily tell what caused this change, sorry.

What compiler? This smells like a broken compiler, these are all
noinstr and that very much has __no_sanitize_address.