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Author SHA1 Message Date
Josh PoimboeufandIngo Molnar 799647ddb4 objtool: Add more robust signal error handling, detect and warn about stack overflows
When the kernel build fails due to an objtool segfault, the error
message is a bit obtuse and confusing:

  make[5]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:503: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.o] Error 139
                                                                            ^^^^^^^^^
  make[5]: *** Deleting file 'drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.o'
  make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx] Error 2
  make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: drivers/scsi] Error 2
  make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: drivers] Error 2
  make[1]: *** [/home/jpoimboe/git/linux/Makefile:2013: .] Error 2
  make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2

Add a signal handler to objtool which prints an error message like if
the local stack has overflown (for which there's a chance as objtool
makes heavy use of recursion):

  drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.o: error: SIGSEGV: objtool stack overflow!

or:

  drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.o: error: SIGSEGV: objtool crash!

Also, re-raise the signal so the core dump still gets triggered.

[ mingo: Applied a build fix, added more comments and prettified the code. ]

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/mi4tihk4dbncn7belrhp6ooudhpw4vdggerktu5333w3gqf3uf@vqlhc3y667mg
2025-12-03 19:42:37 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 7c2575a640 objtool/klp: Add --debug option to show cloning decisions
Add a --debug option to klp diff which prints cloning decisions and an
indented dependency tree for all cloned symbols and relocations.  This
helps visualize which symbols and relocations were included and why.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:50:18 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf dd590d4d57 objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files
Add a new klp diff subcommand which performs a binary diff between two
object files and extracts changed functions into a new object which can
then be linked into a livepatch module.

This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch [1]
project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate
livepatch modules for production kernels.  However, this is a complete
rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of
maintaining kpatch.

Key improvements compared to kpatch-build:

  - Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow
    graph analysis to help detect changed functions.

  - Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it
    compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar.

  - Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code.

  - Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft.

  - Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc
    inclusion and special section extraction.

  - Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs
    caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script
    (coming in a later patch) which injects #line directives into the
    source .patch to preserve the original line numbers at compile time.

Note the end result of this subcommand is not yet functionally complete.
Livepatch needs some ELF magic which linkers don't like:

  - Two relocation sections (.rela*, .klp.rela*) for the same text
    section.

  - Use of SHN_LIVEPATCH to mark livepatch symbols.

Unfortunately linkers tend to mangle such things.  To work around that,
klp diff generates a linker-compliant intermediate binary which encodes
the relevant KLP section/reloc/symbol metadata.

After module linking, a klp post-link step (coming soon) will clean up
the mess and convert the linked .ko into a fully compliant livepatch
module.

Note this subcommand requires the diffed binaries to have been compiled
with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections, and processed with
'objtool --checksum'.  Those constraints will be handled by a klp-build
script introduced in a later patch.

Without '-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections', reliable object diffing
would be infeasible due to toolchain limitations:

  - For intra-file+intra-section references, the compiler might
    occasionally generated hard-coded instruction offsets instead of
    relocations.

  - Section-symbol-based references can be ambiguous:

    - Overlapping or zero-length symbols create ambiguity as to which
      symbol is being referenced.

    - A reference to the end of a symbol (e.g., checking array bounds)
      can be misinterpreted as a reference to the next symbol, or vice
      versa.

A potential future alternative to '-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections'
would be to introduce a toolchain option that forces symbol-based
(non-section) relocations.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-14 14:50:18 -07:00
Josh PoimboeufandIngo Molnar 3e7be63593 objtool: Change "warning:" to "error: " for fatal errors
This is similar to GCC's behavior and makes it more obvious why the
build failed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0ea76f4b0e7a370711ed9f75fd0792bb5979c2bf.1743481539.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-04-01 09:07:13 +02:00
Josh PoimboeufandIngo Molnar c5995abe15 objtool: Improve error handling
Fix some error handling issues, improve error messages, properly
distinguish betwee errors and warnings, and generally try to make all
the error handling more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3094bb4463dad29b6bd1bea03848d1571ace771c.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-25 09:20:27 +01:00
Josh PoimboeufandPeter Zijlstra aa8b3e64fd objtool: Create backup on error and print args
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
2025-03-17 11:36:02 +01:00
Josh PoimboeufandPeter Zijlstra 5a406031d0 objtool: Add --output option
Add option to allow writing the changed binary to a separate file rather
than changing it in place.

Libelf makes this suprisingly hard, so take the easy way out and just
copy the file before editing it.

Also steal the -o short option from --orc.  Nobody will notice ;-)

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0da308d42d82b3bbed16a31a72d6bde52afcd6bd.1741975349.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-03-17 11:36:01 +01:00
Aaron PlattnerandJosh Poimboeuf e959c279d3 objtool: Propagate early errors
If objtool runs into a problem that causes it to exit early, the overall
tool still returns a status code of 0, which causes the build to
continue as if nothing went wrong.

Note this only affects early errors, as later errors are still ignored
by check().

Fixes: b51277eb97 ("objtool: Ditch subcommands")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cb6a28832d24b2ebfafd26da9abb95f874c83045.1696355111.git.aplattner@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2023-10-05 17:01:11 -07:00
Peter ZijlstraandIngo Molnar 1c34496e58 objtool: Remove instruction::list
Replace the instruction::list by allocating instructions in arrays of
256 entries and stringing them together by (amortized) find_insn().
This shrinks instruction by 16 bytes and brings it down to 128.

 struct instruction {
-	struct list_head           list;                 /*     0    16 */
-	struct hlist_node          hash;                 /*    16    16 */
-	struct list_head           call_node;            /*    32    16 */
-	struct section *           sec;                  /*    48     8 */
-	long unsigned int          offset;               /*    56     8 */
-	/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
-	long unsigned int          immediate;            /*    64     8 */
-	unsigned int               len;                  /*    72     4 */
-	u8                         type;                 /*    76     1 */
-
-	/* Bitfield combined with previous fields */
+	struct hlist_node          hash;                 /*     0    16 */
+	struct list_head           call_node;            /*    16    16 */
+	struct section *           sec;                  /*    32     8 */
+	long unsigned int          offset;               /*    40     8 */
+	long unsigned int          immediate;            /*    48     8 */
+	u8                         len;                  /*    56     1 */
+	u8                         prev_len;             /*    57     1 */
+	u8                         type;                 /*    58     1 */
+	s8                         instr;                /*    59     1 */
+	u32                        idx:8;                /*    60: 0  4 */
+	u32                        dead_end:1;           /*    60: 8  4 */
+	u32                        ignore:1;             /*    60: 9  4 */
+	u32                        ignore_alts:1;        /*    60:10  4 */
+	u32                        hint:1;               /*    60:11  4 */
+	u32                        save:1;               /*    60:12  4 */
+	u32                        restore:1;            /*    60:13  4 */
+	u32                        retpoline_safe:1;     /*    60:14  4 */
+	u32                        noendbr:1;            /*    60:15  4 */
+	u32                        entry:1;              /*    60:16  4 */
+	u32                        visited:4;            /*    60:17  4 */
+	u32                        no_reloc:1;           /*    60:21  4 */

-	u16                        dead_end:1;           /*    76: 8  2 */
-	u16                        ignore:1;             /*    76: 9  2 */
-	u16                        ignore_alts:1;        /*    76:10  2 */
-	u16                        hint:1;               /*    76:11  2 */
-	u16                        save:1;               /*    76:12  2 */
-	u16                        restore:1;            /*    76:13  2 */
-	u16                        retpoline_safe:1;     /*    76:14  2 */
-	u16                        noendbr:1;            /*    76:15  2 */
-	u16                        entry:1;              /*    78: 0  2 */
-	u16                        visited:4;            /*    78: 1  2 */
-	u16                        no_reloc:1;           /*    78: 5  2 */
+	/* XXX 10 bits hole, try to pack */

-	/* XXX 2 bits hole, try to pack */
-	/* Bitfield combined with next fields */
-
-	s8                         instr;                /*    79     1 */
-	struct alt_group *         alt_group;            /*    80     8 */
-	struct instruction *       jump_dest;            /*    88     8 */
-	struct instruction *       first_jump_src;       /*    96     8 */
+	/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
+	struct alt_group *         alt_group;            /*    64     8 */
+	struct instruction *       jump_dest;            /*    72     8 */
+	struct instruction *       first_jump_src;       /*    80     8 */
 	union {
-		struct symbol *    _call_dest;           /*   104     8 */
-		struct reloc *     _jump_table;          /*   104     8 */
-	};                                               /*   104     8 */
-	struct alternative *       alts;                 /*   112     8 */
-	struct symbol *            sym;                  /*   120     8 */
-	/* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
-	struct stack_op *          stack_ops;            /*   128     8 */
-	struct cfi_state *         cfi;                  /*   136     8 */
+		struct symbol *    _call_dest;           /*    88     8 */
+		struct reloc *     _jump_table;          /*    88     8 */
+	};                                               /*    88     8 */
+	struct alternative *       alts;                 /*    96     8 */
+	struct symbol *            sym;                  /*   104     8 */
+	struct stack_op *          stack_ops;            /*   112     8 */
+	struct cfi_state *         cfi;                  /*   120     8 */

-	/* size: 144, cachelines: 3, members: 28 */
-	/* sum members: 142 */
-	/* sum bitfield members: 14 bits, bit holes: 1, sum bit holes: 2 bits */
-	/* last cacheline: 16 bytes */
+	/* size: 128, cachelines: 2, members: 29 */
+	/* sum members: 124 */
+	/* sum bitfield members: 22 bits, bit holes: 1, sum bit holes: 10 bits */
 };

pre:	5:38.18 real,   213.25 user,    124.90 sys,     23449040 mem
post:	5:03.34 real,   210.75 user,    88.80 sys,      20241232 mem

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> # build only
Tested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> # compile and run
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230208172245.851307606@infradead.org
2023-02-23 09:21:44 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 00abd38408 objtool: Add .call_sites section
In preparation for call depth tracking provide a section which collects all
direct calls.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111146.016511961@infradead.org
2022-10-17 16:41:07 +02:00
Peter ZijlstraandBorislav Petkov d9e9d23006 x86,objtool: Create .return_sites
Find all the return-thunk sites and record them in a .return_sites
section such that the kernel can undo this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
2022-06-27 10:33:58 +02:00
Josh PoimboeufandPeter Zijlstra b51277eb97 objtool: Ditch subcommands
Objtool has a fairly singular focus.  It runs on object files and does
validations and transformations which can be combined in various ways.
The subcommand model has never been a good fit, making it awkward to
combine and remove options.

Remove the "check" and "orc" subcommands in favor of a more traditional
cmdline option model.  This makes it much more flexible to use, and
easier to port individual features to other arches.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c61ebf805e90aefc5fa62bc63468ffae53b9df6.1650300597.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2022-04-22 12:32:01 +02:00
Josh PoimboeufandPeter Zijlstra 2daf7faba7 objtool: Reorganize cmdline options
Split the existing options into two groups: actions, which actually do
something; and options, which modify the actions in some way.

Also there's no need to have short flags for all the non-action options.
Reserve short flags for the more important actions.

While at it:

- change a few of the short flags to be more intuitive

- make option descriptions more consistently descriptive

- sort options in the source like they are when printed

- move options to a global struct

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9dcaa752f83aca24b1b21f0b0eeb28a0c181c0b0.1650300597.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2022-04-22 12:32:01 +02:00
Josh PoimboeufandPeter Zijlstra 08feafe8d1 objtool: Fix function fallthrough detection for vmlinux
Objtool's function fallthrough detection only works on C objects.
The distinction between C and assembly objects no longer makes sense
with objtool running on vmlinux.o.

Now that copy_user_64.S has been fixed up, and an objtool sibling call
detection bug has been fixed, the asm code is in "compliance" and this
hack is no longer needed.  Remove it.

Fixes: ed53a0d971 ("x86/alternative: Use .ibt_endbr_seal to seal indirect calls")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b434cff98eca3a60dcc64c620d7d5d405a0f441c.1649718562.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2022-04-19 21:58:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 89bc853eae objtool: Find unused ENDBR instructions
Find all ENDBR instructions which are never referenced and stick them
in a section such that the kernel can poison them, sealing the
functions from ever being an indirect call target.

This removes about 1-in-4 ENDBR instructions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220308154319.763643193@infradead.org
2022-03-15 10:32:47 +01:00
Peter ZijlstraandBorislav Petkov 988f01683c objtool: Fix pv_ops noinstr validation
Boris reported that in one of his randconfig builds, objtool got
infinitely stuck. Turns out there's trivial list corruption in the
pv_ops tracking when a function is both in a static table and in a code
assignment.

Avoid re-adding function to the pv_ops[] lists when they're already on
it.

Fixes: db2b0c5d7b ("objtool: Support pv_opsindirect calls for noinstr")
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202204534.GA16608@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
2021-12-03 09:11:42 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra db2b0c5d7b objtool: Support pv_opsindirect calls for noinstr
Normally objtool will now follow indirect calls; there is no need.

However, this becomes a problem with noinstr validation; if there's an
indirect call from noinstr code, we very much need to know it is to
another noinstr function. Luckily there aren't many indirect calls in
entry code with the obvious exception of paravirt. As such, noinstr
validation didn't work with paravirt kernels.

In order to track pv_ops[] call targets, objtool reads the static
pv_ops[] tables as well as direct assignments to the pv_ops[] array,
provided the compiler makes them a single instruction like:

  bf87:       48 c7 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00        movq   $0x0,0x0(%rip)
    bf92 <xen_init_spinlocks+0x5f>
    bf8a: R_X86_64_PC32     pv_ops+0x268

There are, as of yet, no warnings for when this goes wrong :/

Using the functions found with the above means, all pv_ops[] calls are
now subject to noinstr validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624095149.118815755@infradead.org
2021-09-17 13:20:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 03b2cd72aa Merge tag 'objtool-core-2021-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Standardize the crypto asm code so that it looks like compiler-
   generated code to objtool - so that it can understand it. This
   enables unwinding from crypto asm code - and also fixes the last
   known remaining objtool warnings for LTO and more.

 - x86 decoder fixes: clean up and fix the decoder, and also extend it a
   bit

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'objtool-core-2021-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/crypto: Enable objtool in crypto code
  x86/crypto/sha512-ssse3: Standardize stack alignment prologue
  x86/crypto/sha512-avx2: Standardize stack alignment prologue
  x86/crypto/sha512-avx: Standardize stack alignment prologue
  x86/crypto/sha256-avx2: Standardize stack alignment prologue
  x86/crypto/sha1_avx2: Standardize stack alignment prologue
  x86/crypto/sha_ni: Standardize stack alignment prologue
  x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel: Standardize jump table
  x86/crypto/camellia-aesni-avx2: Unconditionally allocate stack buffer
  x86/crypto/aesni-intel_avx: Standardize stack alignment prologue
  x86/crypto/aesni-intel_avx: Fix register usage comments
  x86/crypto/aesni-intel_avx: Remove unused macros
  objtool: Support asm jump tables
  objtool: Parse options from OBJTOOL_ARGS
  objtool: Collate parse_options() users
  objtool: Add --backup
  objtool,x86: More ModRM sugar
  objtool,x86: Rewrite ADD/SUB/AND
  objtool,x86: Support %riz encodings
  objtool,x86: Simplify register decode
  ...
2021-04-28 12:53:24 -07:00
Peter ZijlstraandIngo Molnar 43d5430ad7 objtool: Keep track of retpoline call sites
Provide infrastructure for architectures to rewrite/augment compiler
generated retpoline calls. Similar to what we do for static_call()s,
keep track of the instructions that are retpoline calls.

Use the same list_head, since a retpoline call cannot also be a
static_call.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210326151300.130805730@infradead.org
2021-04-02 12:45:27 +02:00
Peter ZijlstraandIngo Molnar 8ad15c6900 objtool: Add --backup
Teach objtool to write backups files, such that it becomes easier to
see what objtool did to the object file.

Backup files will be ${name}.orig.

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YD4obT3aoXPWl7Ax@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
2021-03-06 12:44:23 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 414eece95b Merge tag 'clang-lto-v5.12-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull more clang LTO updates from Kees Cook:
 "Clang LTO x86 enablement.

  Full disclosure: while this has _not_ been in linux-next (since it
  initially looked like the objtool dependencies weren't going to make
  v5.12), it has been under daily build and runtime testing by Sami for
  quite some time. These x86 portions have been discussed on lkml, with
  Peter, Josh, and others helping nail things down.

  The bulk of the changes are to get objtool working happily. The rest
  of the x86 enablement is very small.

  Summary:

   - Generate __mcount_loc in objtool (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Support running objtool against vmlinux.o (Sami Tolvanen)

   - Clang LTO enablement for x86 (Sami Tolvanen)"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201013003203.4168817-26-samitolvanen@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1611263461.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com/

* tag 'clang-lto-v5.12-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  kbuild: lto: force rebuilds when switching CONFIG_LTO
  x86, build: allow LTO to be selected
  x86, cpu: disable LTO for cpu.c
  x86, vdso: disable LTO only for vDSO
  kbuild: lto: postpone objtool
  objtool: Split noinstr validation from --vmlinux
  x86, build: use objtool mcount
  tracing: add support for objtool mcount
  objtool: Don't autodetect vmlinux.o
  objtool: Fix __mcount_loc generation with Clang's assembler
  objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc
2021-02-23 15:13:45 -08:00
Peter ZijlstraandKees Cook 99d0021569 objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc
Add the --mcount option for generating __mcount_loc sections
needed for dynamic ftrace. Using this pass requires the kernel to
be compiled with -mfentry and CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT to be defined
in Makefile.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200625200235.GQ4781@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[Sami: rebased, dropped config changes, fixed to actually use --mcount,
       and wrote a commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2021-02-23 12:46:56 -08:00
Vasily GorbikandJosh Poimboeuf 7786032e52 objtool: Rework header include paths
Currently objtool headers are being included either by their base name
or included via ../ from a parent directory. In case of a base name usage:

 #include "warn.h"
 #include "arch_elf.h"

it does not make it apparent from which directory the file comes from.
To make it slightly better, and actually to avoid name clashes some arch
specific files have "arch_" suffix. And files from an arch folder have
to revert to including via ../ e.g:
 #include "../../elf.h"

With additional architectures support and the code base growth there is
a need for clearer headers naming scheme for multiple reasons:
1. to make it instantly obvious where these files come from (objtool
   itself / objtool arch|generic folders / some other external files),
2. to avoid name clashes of objtool arch specific headers, potential
   obtool arch generic headers and the system header files (there is
   /usr/include/elf.h already),
3. to avoid ../ includes and improve code readability.
4. to give a warm fuzzy feeling to developers who are mostly kernel
   developers and are accustomed to linux kernel headers arranging
   scheme.

Doesn't this make it instantly obvious where are these files come from?

 #include <objtool/warn.h>
 #include <arch/elf.h>

And doesn't it look nicer to avoid ugly ../ includes? Which also
guarantees this is elf.h from the objtool and not /usr/include/elf.h.

 #include <objtool/elf.h>

This patch defines and implements new objtool headers arranging
scheme. Which is:
- all generic headers go to include/objtool (similar to include/linux)
- all arch headers go to arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/arch (to get arch
  prefix). This is similar to linux arch specific "asm/*" headers but we
  are not abusing "asm" name and calling it what it is. This also helps
  to prevent name clashes (arch is not used in system headers or kernel
  exports).

To bring objtool to this state the following things are done:
1. current top level tools/objtool/ headers are moved into
   include/objtool/ subdirectory,
2. arch specific headers, currently only arch/x86/include/ are moved into
   arch/x86/include/arch/ and were stripped of "arch_" suffix,
3. new -I$(srctree)/tools/objtool/include include path to make
   includes like <objtool/warn.h> possible,
4. rewriting file includes,
5. make git not to ignore include/objtool/ subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2021-01-13 18:13:14 -06:00
Julien ThierryandJosh Poimboeuf 6545eb030e objtool: Move object file loading out of check()
Structure objtool_file can be used by different subcommands. In fact
it already is, by check and orc.

Provide a function that allows to initialize objtool_file, that builtin
can call, without relying on check to do the correct setup for them and
explicitly hand the objtool_file to them.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2020-09-01 17:19:07 -05:00
Matt HelsleyandJosh Poimboeuf f15c648f20 objtool: Exit successfully when requesting help
When the user requests help it's not an error so do not exit with
a non-zero exit code. This is not especially useful for a user but
any script that might wish to check that objtool --help is at least
available can't rely on the exit code to crudely check that, for
example, building an objtool executable succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2020-05-20 08:32:52 -05:00