Re: [PATCH] objtool: ignore .L prefixed local symbols

[Fangrui Song]

On 2020-02-13, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Top of tree LLVM has optimizations related to
> -fno-semantic-interposition to avoid emitting PLT relocations for
> references to symbols located in the same translation unit, where it
> will emit "local symbol" references.
>
> Clang builds fall back on GNU as for assembling, currently. It appears a
> bug in GNU as introduced around 2.31 is keeping around local labels in
> the symbol table, despite the documentation saying:
>
> "Local symbols are defined and used within the assembler, but they are
> normally not saved in object files."

If you can reword the paragraph above mentioning the fact below without being
more verbose, please do that.

If the reference is within the same section which defines the .L symbol,
there is no outstanding relocation. If the reference is outside the
section, there will be an R_X86_64_PLT32 referencing .L

> When objtool searches for a symbol at a given offset, it's finding the
> incorrectly kept .L<symbol>$local symbol that should have been discarded
> by the assembler.
>
> A patch for GNU as has been authored.  For now, objtool should not treat
> local symbols as the expected symbol for a given offset when iterating
> the symbol table.

Agree. binutils 2.31~2.34 will be affected. objtool has to work around
the existing releases.

> commit 644592d32837 ("objtool: Fail the kernel build on fatal errors")
> exposed this issue.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/872
> Link: https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Symbol-Names.html#Symbol-Names
> Link: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2020-02/msg00243.html
> Link: https://travis-ci.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/jobs/286292010
> Debugged-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> Debugged-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Build tested allyesconfig with ToT Clang and GCC 9.2.1.
> Boot tested defconfig with ToT Clang and GCC 9.2.1.
>
> tools/objtool/elf.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
> index edba4745f25a..9c1e3cc928b0 100644
> --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
> +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
> @@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ struct symbol *find_symbol_by_offset(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset)
>
> 	list_for_each_entry(sym, &sec->symbol_list, list)
> 		if (sym->type != STT_SECTION &&
> -		    sym->offset == offset)
> +		    sym->offset == offset &&
> +		    strstr(sym->name, ".L") != sym->name)

!strncmp(sym->name, ".L", 2)

.L in the middle of a symbol name may be rare, though.

> 			return sym;
>
> 	return NULL;
> --
> 2.25.0.225.g125e21ebc7-goog