Add an option to trace and have information during the validation
of specified functions. Functions are specified with the --trace
option which can be a single function name (e.g. --trace foo to
trace the function with the name "foo"), or a shell wildcard
pattern (e.g. --trace foo* to trace all functions with a name
starting with "foo").
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121095340.464045-11-alexandre.chartre@oracle.com
Add a --debug-checksum=<funcs> option to the check subcommand to print
the calculated checksum of each instruction in the given functions.
This is useful for determining where two versions of a function begin to
diverge.
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
In preparation for the objtool klp diff subcommand, add a command-line
option to generate a unique checksum for each function. This will
enable detection of functions which have changed between two versions of
an object file.
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Bring the cmdline check_options[] array back into vertical alignment for
better readability.
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
The --backup option was removed with the following commit:
aa8b3e64fd ("objtool: Create backup on error and print args")
... which tied the backup functionality to --verbose, and only for
warnings/errors.
It's a bit inelegant and out of scope to tie that to --verbose.
Bring back the old --backup option, but with the new behavior: only on
warnings/errors, and print the args to make it easier to recreate.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
The objtool --Werror option name is stylistically inconsistent: halfway
between GCC's single-dash capitalized -Werror and objtool's double-dash
--lowercase convention, making it unnecessarily hard to remember.
Make the 'W' lower case (--werror) for consistency with objtool's other
options.
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Remove unnecessary semicolons reported by Coccinelle/coccicheck and the
semantic patch at scripts/coccinelle/misc/semicolon.cocci.
Signed-off-by: Chen Ni <nichen@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
The x86 startup code must not use absolute references to code or data,
as it executes before the kernel virtual mapping is up.
Add an action to objtool to check all allocatable sections (with the
exception of __patchable_function_entries, which uses absolute
references for nebulous reasons) and raise an error if any absolute
references are found.
Note that debug sections typically contain lots of absolute references
too, but those are not allocatable so they will be ignored.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-39-ardb+git@google.com
Recent Ubuntu enforces 3-argument open() with O_CREAT:
CC /home/mingo/tip/tools/objtool/builtin-check.o
In file included from /usr/include/fcntl.h:341,
from builtin-check.c:9:
In function ‘open’,
inlined from ‘copy_file’ at builtin-check.c:201:11:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/fcntl2.h:52:11: error: call to ‘__open_missing_mode’ declared with attribute error: open with O_CREAT or O_TMPFILE in second argument needs 3 arguments
52 | __open_missing_mode ();
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Use 0400 as the most restrictive mode for the new file.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Recreating objtool errors can be a manual process. Kbuild removes the
object, so it has to be compiled or linked again before running objtool.
Then the objtool args need to be reversed engineered.
Make that all easier by automatically making a backup of the object file
on error, and print a modified version of the args which can be used to
recreate.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7571e30636359b3e173ce6e122419452bb31882f.1741975349.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
With unret validation enabled and IBT/LTO disabled, objtool runs on TUs
with --rethunk and on vmlinux.o with --unret. So this dependency isn't
valid as they don't always run on the same object.
This error never triggered before because --unret is always coupled with
--noinstr, so the first conditional in opts_valid() returns early due to
opts.noinstr being true.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c6f5635784a28ed4b10ac4307b1858e015e6eff0.1741975349.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
The help message mentions the main options as "actions", which is
different from the optional "options". But the check error messages
outputs "option" or "command" for referring to actions.
Make the error messages consistent with help.
Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant <siddh.raman.pant@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
