Some arch/x86/crypto/*.S files define local .set/.equ constants that get duplicated in vmlinux.o. This causes klp-diff to fail with "Multiple correlation candidates" errors since it can't uniquely match these between orig and patched builds.
Skip ABS symbols in dont_correlate(). They're purely compile-time assembly constants that are never referenced by relocations, so they don't need correlation. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> --- tools/objtool/klp-diff.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c index f6597015b33b..05071d691b5f 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c +++ b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c @@ -361,6 +361,15 @@ static bool is_addressable_sym(struct symbol *sym) return !strcmp(sym->sec->name, ".discard.addressable"); } +/* + * ABS symbols are typically assembly .set/.equ constants which are never + * referenced by relocations. (Exclude FILE symbols which are also SHN_ABS.) + */ +static bool is_abs_sym(struct symbol *sym) +{ + return sym->sym.st_shndx == SHN_ABS && !is_file_sym(sym); +} + /* * These symbols should never be correlated, so their local patched versions * are used instead of linking to the originals. @@ -370,6 +379,7 @@ static bool dont_correlate(struct symbol *sym) return is_file_sym(sym) || is_null_sym(sym) || is_sec_sym(sym) || + is_abs_sym(sym) || is_prefix_func(sym) || is_uncorrelated_static_local(sym) || is_clang_tmp_label(sym) || -- 2.53.0
