Re: [RFC 27/31] objtool: Fix weak symbol detection

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 08:55:13PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 10:26:45AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 09:00:10PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > @@ -433,9 +433,13 @@ static void elf_add_symbol(struct elf *elf, struct symbol *sym)
> > >  	/*
> > >  	 * Don't store empty STT_NOTYPE symbols in the rbtree.  They
> > >  	 * can exist within a function, confusing the sorting.
> > > +	 *
> > > +	 * TODO: is this still true?
> > 
> > a2e38dffcd93 ("objtool: Don't add empty symbols to the rbtree")
> > 
> > I don't think that changed.
> 
> But see two patches back where I fixed a bug in the insertion of
> zero-length symbols.
> 
> I was thinking that might actually be the root cause of the above
> commit.

Aah, yeah, might be. If we can reproduce the original problem, it should
be verifiable.