[PATCH 2/4] objtool: Skip unreachable warnings for 'alt' instructions

[Josh Poimboeuf]

When a whitelisted function uses one of the ALTERNATIVE macros, it
produces false positive warnings like:

  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0x0: unreachable instruction
  arch/x86/kvm/svm.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0x6e: unreachable instruction

There's no easy way to whitelist alternative instructions, so instead
just skip any 'unreachable' warnings associated with them.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/objtool/check.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index d07bf4a62b45..4f0c4aea8f6f 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -1746,8 +1746,13 @@ static bool ignore_unreachable_insn(struct instruction *insn)
 	/*
 	 * Ignore any unused exceptions.  This can happen when a whitelisted
 	 * function has an exception table entry.
+	 *
+	 * Also ignore alternative replacement instructions.  This can happen
+	 * when a whitelisted function uses one of the ALTERNATIVE macros.
 	 */
-	if (!strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".fixup"))
+	if (!strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".fixup") ||
+	    !strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".altinstr_replacement") ||
+	    !strcmp(insn->sec->name, ".altinstr_aux"))
 		return true;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.13.3