!sym->sec isn't actually a thing: even STT_UNDEF and other special symbol types belong to NULL section 0.
Simplify the initialization of 'shndx' accordingly. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@kernel.org> --- tools/objtool/elf.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index 1bb86151243a..4e274197bcd6 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ static int elf_update_sym_relocs(struct elf *elf, struct symbol *sym) static int elf_update_symbol(struct elf *elf, struct section *symtab, struct section *symtab_shndx, struct symbol *sym) { - Elf32_Word shndx = sym->sec ? sym->sec->idx : SHN_UNDEF; + Elf32_Word shndx; Elf_Data *symtab_data = NULL, *shndx_data = NULL; Elf64_Xword entsize = symtab->sh.sh_entsize; int max_idx, idx = sym->idx; @@ -642,8 +642,7 @@ static int elf_update_symbol(struct elf *elf, struct section *symtab, bool is_special_shndx = sym->sym.st_shndx >= SHN_LORESERVE && sym->sym.st_shndx != SHN_XINDEX; - if (is_special_shndx) - shndx = sym->sym.st_shndx; + shndx = is_special_shndx ? sym->sym.st_shndx : sym->sec->idx; s = elf_getscn(elf->elf, symtab->idx); if (!s) { -- 2.49.0