Re: [PATCH 0/3] objtool: Fix undefined behaviour reported by UBSan on a defconfig build

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 06:02:52PM -0600, Leizhen Zhang wrote:
> An x86_64 defconfig build of v7.4-rc2 with objtool built with
> -fsanitize=address,undefined (GCC 12) gives two UBSan reports from
> objtool, both on the normal vmlinux.o pass, no unusual input involved:
> 
>   arch/x86/orc.c:11:18: runtime error: member access within null pointer of type 'struct cfi_state'
>   special.c:84:18: runtime error: load of misaligned address ... for type 'unsigned int', which requires 4 byte alignment
> 
> 1/3 fixes the first one: init_orc_entry() takes &cfi->regs[CFI_BP]
> before its own "if (!cfi)" check.  2/3 is the same pattern in the
> LoongArch copy of the function; I compile-tested objtool for LoongArch
> but have no LoongArch object to run it on.  3/3 fixes the second one:
> the feature word of a 14-byte packed struct alt_instr is read through
> an 'unsigned int *', so every odd-numbered entry is misaligned.
> 
> Testing: I relinked vmlinux.o without objtool and ran the old and the
> new objtool binary on two copies of it, with the arguments Kbuild uses.
> The old one prints both reports, the new one prints none, and the two
> resulting vmlinux.o files are byte-identical.  A full rebuild with the
> patched objtool is also clean for objtool.
> 
> None of this is a security issue: objtool only processes objects from
> the build itself.
> 
> The two reports were found with UBSan, and the analysis and fixes were
> prepared with the help of an AI coding assistant; I reviewed and tested
> the result.
> 
> Leizhen Zhang (3):
>   objtool/x86: Move the cfi->regs access after the NULL check
>   objtool/LoongArch: Move the cfi->regs access after the NULL check
>   objtool: Fix misaligned load of the alternative feature word
> 
>  tools/objtool/arch/loongarch/orc.c | 6 ++++--
>  tools/objtool/arch/x86/orc.c       | 4 +++-
>  tools/objtool/special.c            | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Thanks!  I will queue these up.

-- 
Josh