Re: [PATCH v6 22/25] x86/asm: annotate indirect jumps

[Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 08:48:01PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 6:29 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> > How would I recreate all these warnings?
> 
> You can reproduce all of these using a normal gcc build without any of
> the LTO patches by running objtool check -arfld vmlinux.o. However,
> with gcc you'll see even more warnings due to duplicate symbol names,
> as Peter pointed out elsewhere in the thread, so I looked at only the
> warnings that objtool also prints with LTO.
> 
> Note that the LTO series contains a patch to split noinstr validation
> from --vmlinux, as we need to run objtool here even if
> CONFIG_VMLINUX_VALIDATION isn't selected, so I have not looked at the
> noinstr warnings. The latest LTO tree is available here:
> 
> https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux/commits/clang-lto
> 
> > Here's the patch for hopefully making the warnings more helpful:
> 
> Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Here's the version without the nonsensical debug warning :-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index 4e1d7460574b..ced7e4754cba 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -217,6 +217,21 @@ struct symbol *find_func_containing(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+struct symbol *find_symbol_preceding(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset)
+{
+	struct symbol *sym;
+
+	/*
+	 * This is slow, but used for warning messages.
+	 */
+	while (1) {
+		sym = find_symbol_by_offset(sec, offset);
+		if (sym || !offset)
+			return sym;
+		offset--;
+	}
+}
+
 struct symbol *find_symbol_by_name(const struct elf *elf, const char *name)
 {
 	struct symbol *sym;
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/elf.h
index 807f8c670097..841902ed381e 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.h
@@ -136,10 +136,11 @@ struct symbol *find_func_by_offset(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
 struct symbol *find_symbol_by_offset(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
 struct symbol *find_symbol_by_name(const struct elf *elf, const char *name);
 struct symbol *find_symbol_containing(const struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
+struct symbol *find_func_containing(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
+struct symbol *find_symbol_preceding(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
 struct reloc *find_reloc_by_dest(const struct elf *elf, struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
 struct reloc *find_reloc_by_dest_range(const struct elf *elf, struct section *sec,
 				     unsigned long offset, unsigned int len);
-struct symbol *find_func_containing(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
 int elf_rebuild_reloc_section(struct elf *elf, struct section *sec);
 
 #define for_each_sec(file, sec)						\
diff --git a/tools/objtool/warn.h b/tools/objtool/warn.h
index 7799f60de80a..33da0f2ed9d5 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/warn.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/warn.h
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ static inline char *offstr(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset)
 	unsigned long name_off;
 
 	func = find_func_containing(sec, offset);
+	if (!func)
+		func = find_symbol_preceding(sec, offset);
 	if (func) {
 		name = func->name;
 		name_off = offset - func->offset;