Commit-ID: 97dab2ae7e8473a821f72a039ead0f36b12ba22d Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/97dab2ae7e8473a821f72a039ead0f36b12ba22d Author: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 02:17:11 -0500 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:31:57 +0200
objtool: Fix object file corruption Arnd Bergmann reported that a randconfig build was failing with the following link error: built-in.o: member arch/x86/kernel/time.o in archive is not an object It turns out the link failed because the time.o file had been corrupted by objtool: nm: arch/x86/kernel/time.o: File format not recognized In certain rare cases, when a .o file's ORC table is very small, the .data section size doesn't change because it's page aligned. Because all the existing sections haven't changed size, libelf doesn't detect any section header changes, and so it doesn't update the section header table properly. Instead it writes junk in the section header entries for the new ORC sections. Make sure libelf properly updates the section header table by setting the ELF_F_DIRTY flag in the top level elf struct. Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Fixes: 627fce14809b ("objtool: Add ORC unwind table generation") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e650fd0f2d8a209d1409a9785deb101fdaed55fb.1505459813.git.jpoim...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- tools/objtool/elf.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index b4cd8bc..2446015 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ int elf_write(struct elf *elf) struct section *sec; Elf_Scn *s; + /* Update section headers for changed sections: */ list_for_each_entry(sec, &elf->sections, list) { if (sec->changed) { s = elf_getscn(elf->elf, sec->idx); @@ -570,13 +571,17 @@ int elf_write(struct elf *elf) WARN_ELF("elf_getscn"); return -1; } - if (!gelf_update_shdr (s, &sec->sh)) { + if (!gelf_update_shdr(s, &sec->sh)) { WARN_ELF("gelf_update_shdr"); return -1; } } } + /* Make sure the new section header entries get updated properly. */ + elf_flagelf(elf->elf, ELF_C_SET, ELF_F_DIRTY); + + /* Write all changes to the file. */ if (elf_update(elf->elf, ELF_C_WRITE) < 0) { WARN_ELF("elf_update"); return -1;
