[PATCH] objtool/klp: Fix checksums for constant pool references
From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 23:58:55 EST
Adding a line of code to __link_shadow_page() with a literal string
causes a false positive changed function with GCC:
arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko.o: changed function: kvm_tdp_mmu_map_private_pfn
While the patch only touched __link_shadow_page(), the string addition
triggered a rename of .LC64 -> .LC65 in kvm_tdp_mmu_map_private_pfn()
even though the underlying referenced constant data didn't change.
So for .LC* symbols, the suffix is arbitrary but the data isn't. Add
the underlying data to the checksum calculation rather than the symbol
name.
Fixes: 0d83da43b1e1 ("objtool/klp: Add --checksum option to generate per-function checksums")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/objtool/klp-checksum.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/objtool/klp-checksum.c b/tools/objtool/klp-checksum.c
index b8e47f28997e9..359fd27616013 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/klp-checksum.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/klp-checksum.c
@@ -129,6 +129,14 @@ static void checksum_update_insn(struct objtool_file *file, struct symbol *func,
goto alts;
}
+ if (strstarts(sym->name, ".LC")) {
+ void *cst;
+
+ cst = sym->sec->data->d_buf + sym->offset + offset;
+ __checksum_update_insn(func, insn, cst, sym->sec->sh.sh_entsize);
+ goto alts;
+ }
+
if (is_sec_sym(sym)) {
sym = find_symbol_containing(reloc->sym->sec, offset);
if (!sym)
--
2.55.0