[PATCH 2/2] kbuild: Add option to fail build on vmlinux objtool issues

From: Brendan Jackman
Date: Fri Dec 13 2024 - 06:32:27 EST


NOINSTR_VALIDATION is pretty helpful for detecting bugs, I would like
my build to fail when those bugs arise.

If we wanted to we could enable this for individual warnings, it seems
unlikely there's a use-case for that though. So for now I've just added
a global setting for vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/Kconfig.debug | 11 +++++++++++
scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o | 1 +
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index f3d72370587936fa373129cc9b246f15dac907be..b1f0f8c83b050d4112428e0d8dece059ebf8dcd2 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -563,6 +563,17 @@ config NOINSTR_VALIDATION
select OBJTOOL
default y

+config VMLINUX_OBJTOOL_STRICT
+ bool "Strict objtool on vmlinux"
+ default n
+ # Conditions when we run objtool on vmlinux
+ depends on NOINSTR_VALIDATION || LTO_CLANG || X86_KERNEL_IBT
+ help
+ Fail the build when objtool produces warnings on vmlinux.
+
+ By default, objtool just prints warnings to the terminal without
+ causing a build failure. This config changes that for vmlinux.
+
config VMLINUX_MAP
bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking"
depends on EXPERT
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o
index 0b6e2ebf60dc1bb69d9651d5b7858ccd296e92dd..97b6b262d482e0bac1a4d74f9a2e7b1867b6ee00 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ vmlinux-objtool-args-$(delay-objtool) += $(objtool-args-y)
vmlinux-objtool-args-$(CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) += --no-unreachable
vmlinux-objtool-args-$(CONFIG_NOINSTR_VALIDATION) += --noinstr \
$(if $(or $(CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY),$(CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO)), --unret)
+vmlinux-objtool-args-$(CONFIG_VMLINUX_OBJTOOL_STRICT) += --fail-on-warn

objtool-args = $(vmlinux-objtool-args-y) --link


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