Re: objtool crashes with some clang produced .o files

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:32:05AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Looking at elf.c, it seems we're missing an STT_SECTION symbol for
> .text.
> 
> And indeed, when I add -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to clang-11, that
> goes missing from the readelf .symtab listing. Help ?!

I had a similar problem with ORC relocations:

  e81e07244325 ("objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation")

If Clang strips the section symbol then we have to find the function
symbol instead.

Does this fix it?

diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index c6ab44543c92..9bc18864154f 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -472,8 +472,25 @@ static int create_static_call_sections(struct objtool_file 
*file)
                        return -1;
                }
                memset(reloc, 0, sizeof(*reloc));
-               reloc->sym = insn->sec->sym;
-               reloc->addend = insn->offset;
+
+               if (insn->sec->sym) {
+                       reloc->sym = insn->sec->sym;
+                       reloc->addend = insn->offset;
+               } else {
+                       reloc->sym = find_symbol_containing(insn->sec, 
insn->offset);
+                       if (!reloc->sym) {
+                               WARN_FUNC("can't create static call: missing 
containing symbol",
+                                         insn->sec, insn->offset);
+                               return -1;
+                       }
+
+                       reloc->addend = insn->offset - reloc->sym->offset;
+               }
+
                reloc->type = R_X86_64_PC32;
                reloc->offset = idx * sizeof(struct static_call_site);
                reloc->sec = reloc_sec;