Most functions have an unconditional return at the end, like this one: 00000000 <is_exec_fault>: 0: 81 22 04 d0 lwz r9,1232(r2) 4: 38 60 00 00 li r3,0 8: 2c 09 00 00 cmpwi r9,0 c: 4d 82 00 20 beqlr <== Conditional return 10: 80 69 00 a0 lwz r3,160(r9) 14: 54 63 00 36 clrrwi r3,r3,4 18: 68 63 04 00 xori r3,r3,1024 1c: 7c 63 00 34 cntlzw r3,r3 20: 54 63 d9 7e srwi r3,r3,5 24: 4e 80 00 20 blr <== Unconditional return
But other functions like this other one below only have conditional returns: 00000028 <pte_update.isra.0>: 28: 81 25 00 00 lwz r9,0(r5) 2c: 2c 08 00 00 cmpwi r8,0 30: 7d 29 30 78 andc r9,r9,r6 34: 7d 27 3b 78 or r7,r9,r7 38: 54 84 65 3a rlwinm r4,r4,12,20,29 3c: 81 23 00 18 lwz r9,24(r3) 40: 41 82 00 58 beq 98 <pte_update.isra.0+0x70> 44: 7d 29 20 2e lwzx r9,r9,r4 48: 55 29 07 3a rlwinm r9,r9,0,28,29 4c: 2c 09 00 0c cmpwi r9,12 50: 41 82 00 08 beq 58 <pte_update.isra.0+0x30> 54: 39 00 00 80 li r8,128 58: 2c 08 00 01 cmpwi r8,1 5c: 90 e5 00 00 stw r7,0(r5) 60: 4d a2 00 20 beqlr+ <== Conditional return 64: 7c e9 3b 78 mr r9,r7 68: 39 40 00 00 li r10,0 6c: 39 4a 00 04 addi r10,r10,4 70: 7c 0a 40 00 cmpw r10,r8 74: 91 25 00 04 stw r9,4(r5) 78: 91 25 00 08 stw r9,8(r5) 7c: 38 a5 00 10 addi r5,r5,16 80: 91 25 ff fc stw r9,-4(r5) 84: 4c 80 00 20 bgelr <== Conditional return 88: 55 49 60 26 slwi r9,r10,12 8c: 7d 29 3a 14 add r9,r9,r7 90: 91 25 00 00 stw r9,0(r5) 94: 4b ff ff d8 b 6c <pte_update.isra.0+0x44> 98: 39 00 00 04 li r8,4 9c: 4b ff ff bc b 58 <pte_update.isra.0+0x30> If conditional returns are decoded as INSN_OTHER, objtool considers that the second function never returns. If conditional returns are decoded as INSN_RETURN, objtool considers that code after that conditional return is dead. To overcome this situation, introduce INSN_RETURN_CONDITIONAL which is taken as a confirmation that a function is not noreturn but still sees following code as reachable. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> --- tools/objtool/check.c | 2 +- tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c index 8936a05f0e5a..ae4a1608d97e 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static bool __dead_end_function(struct objtool_file *file, struct symbol *func, func_for_each_insn(file, func, insn) { empty = false; - if (insn->type == INSN_RETURN) + if (insn->type == INSN_RETURN || insn->type == INSN_RETURN_CONDITIONAL) return false; } diff --git a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h index 2b6d2ce4f9a5..84ba75112934 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h +++ b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ enum insn_type { INSN_CALL, INSN_CALL_DYNAMIC, INSN_RETURN, + INSN_RETURN_CONDITIONAL, INSN_CONTEXT_SWITCH, INSN_BUG, INSN_NOP, -- 2.40.1