Re: linux-next: new objtool warnings

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 03 2025 - 04:10:25 EST


On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 11:15:15AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My x86_64 allmodconfig builds started producing these warnings today:
>
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: user_exc_vmm_communication+0x15a: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: exc_debug_user+0x182: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: exc_int3+0x123: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: noist_exc_machine_check+0x17a: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: fred_exc_machine_check+0x17e: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section
>
> I can't easily tell what caused this change, sorry.

What compiler? This smells like a broken compiler, these are all
noinstr and that very much has __no_sanitize_address.