Re: Objtool segfault inside an VM, based on commit 24172e0d7990

From: Qu Wenruo
Date: Mon Nov 17 2025 - 15:30:43 EST




在 2025/11/18 04:20, Nathan Chancellor 写道:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 03:40:35PM +1030, Qu Wenruo wrote:


在 2025/11/17 13:33, Qu Wenruo 写道:


在 2025/11/17 13:10, Qu Wenruo 写道:
Hi,

Recently I'm hitting pretty frequent objtool crashes, sometimes
during module linking (btrfs in my case) sometimes during the
vmlinux linking.

Unfortunately I don't have a coredump for it.

The only info so far is from dmesg (and obvious the compile failure):

[  625.066787] traps: objtool[46220] general protection fault
ip:563ab54c6eb0 sp:7ffd9c2ba7c8 error:0 in
objtool[19eb0,563ab54b2000+1f000]

The involved VM has the following spec:

- Kernel branch
   Btrfs' development branch.

   The base commit is 24172e0d79900908cf5ebf366600616d29c9b417, around
   v6.18-rc6.

Furthermore, if just compiling on old kernels (in my case, 6.17.8), I
haven't yet hit a linking time segfault.

So it's something in the v6.18 release cycle.

Not sure if it's the recent Zen5 related hassles.

I had similar objtool crashes and David's fix [1] from another bug
report thread [2] appears to resolve this for me.

[1]: https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux/commit/58e62699f77738188730d489accd01ad8e3cdeeb
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/20251117082023.90176-1-00107082@xxxxxxx/

Thanks a lot!

Indeed this thread explains why aarch64 doesn't crash and with the patch applied I haven't yet hit another kernel compiling crash.

Thanks,
Qu


Cheers,
Nathan