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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20251105200923.GA3787308@ax162>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 13:09:23 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: new objtool warnings

On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 08:16:13PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> # make O=tmp-build clean
> # make O=tmp-build allmodconfig
> # make O=tmp-build -j64 vmlinux 2>&1 | grep "\[M\]"
>   CC [M]  sound/sound_core.o
>   CC [M]  virt/lib/irqbypass.o
>   AS [M]  arch/x86/crypto/twofish-x86_64-asm_64.o
>   CC [M]  arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue.o
>   CC [M]  samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.o
>   CC [M]  sound/ac97_bus.o
>   AS [M]  arch/x86/crypto/twofish-x86_64-asm_64-3way.o
>   CC [M]  arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue_3way.o

Thanks, I bisected this to commit d2d5cba5d92c ("kbuild: remove EXPERT
and !COMPILE_TEST guarding from TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS"), which explains
everything when looking at Makefile:

  ifdef CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
  # For the kernel to actually contain only the needed exported symbols,
  # we have to build modules as well to determine what those symbols are.
  KBUILD_MODULES := y
  endif

Maybe we want to restore the !COMPILE_TEST dependency?

Cheers,
Nathan