[tip: x86/build] x86/tools: Remove chkobjdump.awk

[tip-bot2 for Nathan Chancellor]

The following commit has been merged into the x86/build branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     5225952d74d43e4c054731c74b8afd700b23a94a
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/5225952d74d43e4c054731c74b8afd700b23a94a
Author:        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate:    Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:17:43 -07:00
Committer:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:38:12 +01:00

x86/tools: Remove chkobjdump.awk

This check is superfluous now that the minimum version of binutils to
build the kernel is 2.25. This also fixes an error seen with
llvm-objdump because it does not support '-v' prior to LLVM 13:

  llvm-objdump: error: unknown argument '-v'

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/dde24a87c55f82d8c7b3bf3eafb10f2b9b2b9a01
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231129-objdump-reformat-llvm-v3-3-0d855e79314d@xxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1362
---
 arch/x86/tools/Makefile       |  2 +-
 arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk | 34 +----------------------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 35 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk

diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/Makefile b/arch/x86/tools/Makefile
index 90e820a..7278e25 100644
--- a/arch/x86/tools/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/tools/Makefile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ reformatter = $(srctree)/arch/x86/tools/objdump_reformat.awk
 chkobjdump = $(srctree)/arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk
 
 quiet_cmd_posttest = TEST    $@
-      cmd_posttest = ($(OBJDUMP) -v | $(AWK) -f $(chkobjdump)) || $(OBJDUMP) -d -j .text $(objtree)/vmlinux | $(AWK) -f $(reformatter) | $(obj)/insn_decoder_test $(posttest_64bit) $(posttest_verbose)
+      cmd_posttest = $(OBJDUMP) -d -j .text $(objtree)/vmlinux | $(AWK) -f $(reformatter) | $(obj)/insn_decoder_test $(posttest_64bit) $(posttest_verbose)
 
 quiet_cmd_sanitytest = TEST    $@
       cmd_sanitytest = $(obj)/insn_sanity $(posttest_64bit) -m 1000000
diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk b/arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk
deleted file mode 100644
index a4cf678..0000000
--- a/arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# GNU objdump version checker
-#
-# Usage:
-# objdump -v | awk -f chkobjdump.awk
-BEGIN {
-	# objdump version 2.19 or later is OK for the test.
-	od_ver = 2;
-	od_sver = 19;
-}
-
-/^GNU objdump/ {
-	verstr = ""
-	gsub(/\(.*\)/, "");
-	for (i = 3; i <= NF; i++)
-		if (match($(i), "^[0-9]")) {
-			verstr = $(i);
-			break;
-		}
-	if (verstr == "") {
-		printf("Warning: Failed to find objdump version number.\n");
-		exit 0;
-	}
-	split(verstr, ver, ".");
-	if (ver[1] > od_ver ||
-	    (ver[1] == od_ver && ver[2] >= od_sver)) {
-		exit 1;
-	} else {
-		printf("Warning: objdump version %s is older than %d.%d\n",
-		       verstr, od_ver, od_sver);
-		print("Warning: Skipping posttest.");
-		# Logic is inverted, because we just skip test without error.
-		exit 0;
-	}
-}