When a whitelisted function uses one of the ALTERNATIVE macros, it produces false positive warnings like:
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0x0: unreachable instruction arch/x86/kvm/svm.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0x6e: unreachable instruction There's no easy way to whitelist alternative instructions, so instead just skip any 'unreachable' warnings associated with them. Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> --- tools/objtool/check.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c index d07bf4a62b45..4f0c4aea8f6f 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -1746,8 +1746,13 @@ static bool ignore_unreachable_insn(struct instruction *insn) /* * Ignore any unused exceptions. This can happen when a whitelisted * function has an exception table entry. + * + * Also ignore alternative replacement instructions. This can happen + * when a whitelisted function uses one of the ALTERNATIVE macros. */ - if (!strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".fixup")) + if (!strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".fixup") || + !strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".altinstr_replacement") || + !strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".altinstr_aux")) return true; /* -- 2.13.3
