Re: [RFC][PATCH 13/17] objtool/x86: Add arch_is_offset_insn()

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 09:12:31AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Add a little wrappery to identify the magic symbols that are actually
> inside another instruction -- yay for variable length instruction
> encoding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c      |    6 ++++++
>  tools/objtool/check.c                |   13 ++++++++++---
>  tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h |    1 +
>  tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h  |    1 +
>  4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
> +++ b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
> @@ -826,3 +826,9 @@ bool arch_is_rethunk(struct symbol *sym)
>  {
>  	return !strcmp(sym->name, "__x86_return_thunk");
>  }
> +
> +bool arch_is_offset_insn(struct symbol *sym)
> +{
> +	return !strcmp(sym->name, "zen_return_thunk") ||
> +	       !strcmp(sym->name, "srso_safe_ret");
> +}

arch_is_embedded_in_insn()?

-- 
Josh