linux-stable/tools
Josh Poimboeuf 97dab2ae7e objtool: Fix object file corruption
Arnd Bergmann reported that a randconfig build was failing with the
following link error:

  built-in.o: member arch/x86/kernel/time.o in archive is not an object

It turns out the link failed because the time.o file had been corrupted
by objtool:

  nm: arch/x86/kernel/time.o: File format not recognized

In certain rare cases, when a .o file's ORC table is very small, the
.data section size doesn't change because it's page aligned.  Because
all the existing sections haven't changed size, libelf doesn't detect
any section header changes, and so it doesn't update the section header
table properly.  Instead it writes junk in the section header entries
for the new ORC sections.

Make sure libelf properly updates the section header table by setting
the ELF_F_DIRTY flag in the top level elf struct.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 627fce1480 ("objtool: Add ORC unwind table generation")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e650fd0f2d8a209d1409a9785deb101fdaed55fb.1505459813.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-15 11:31:57 +02:00
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accounting
arch Merge branch 'parisc-4.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2017-09-05 09:37:11 -07:00
build tools build tests: Don't hardcode gcc name 2017-08-28 16:44:44 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio
hv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-09-06 14:45:08 -07:00
iio iio: tools: add install section 2017-08-09 14:31:58 +01:00
include perf/urgent fixes: 2017-09-13 09:25:10 +02:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: add '-f help' to get the available event list 2017-07-26 19:04:53 +02:00
laptop
leds
lib perf/urgent fixes: 2017-09-13 09:25:10 +02:00
net
nfsd
objtool objtool: Fix object file corruption 2017-09-15 11:31:57 +02:00
pci tools: PCI: Add a missing option help line 2017-08-29 16:03:34 -05:00
pcmcia
perf mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag 2017-09-13 18:53:16 -07:00
power Kbuild updates for v4.14 2017-09-14 13:46:33 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.14 2017-09-14 13:46:33 -07:00
spi spi: tools: add install section 2017-07-26 12:25:28 +01:00
testing Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usbip: auto retry for concurrent attach 2017-08-31 18:08:45 +02:00
virtio
vm
Makefile spi: Updates for v4.14 2017-09-05 11:40:38 -07:00