Re: linux-next: new objtool warnings

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Nov 03 2025 - 04:34:28 EST


Hi Peter,

On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 10:10:06 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 11:15:15AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > 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.

And today I didn't get them. So who knows? I did *not* change compiler
since Friday.

$ /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc --version
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0

Cross compiler hosted on ppc64 le.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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