Re: objtool crashes with some clang produced .o files

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Fri Dec 11 2020 - 11:40:24 EST


On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:32:05AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Looking at elf.c, it seems we're missing an STT_SECTION symbol for
> .text.
>
> And indeed, when I add -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to clang-11, that
> goes missing from the readelf .symtab listing. Help ?!

I had a similar problem with ORC relocations:

e81e07244325 ("objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation")

If Clang strips the section symbol then we have to find the function
symbol instead.

Does this fix it?

diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index c6ab44543c92..9bc18864154f 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -472,8 +472,25 @@ static int create_static_call_sections(struct objtool_file *file)
return -1;
}
memset(reloc, 0, sizeof(*reloc));
- reloc->sym = insn->sec->sym;
- reloc->addend = insn->offset;
+
+ if (insn->sec->sym) {
+ reloc->sym = insn->sec->sym;
+ reloc->addend = insn->offset;
+ } else {
+ reloc->sym = find_symbol_containing(insn->sec, insn->offset);
+ if (!reloc->sym) {
+ WARN_FUNC("can't create static call: missing containing symbol",
+ insn->sec, insn->offset);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ reloc->addend = insn->offset - reloc->sym->offset;
+ }
+
reloc->type = R_X86_64_PC32;
reloc->offset = idx * sizeof(struct static_call_site);
reloc->sec = reloc_sec;