[GIT PULL] objtools fix for v5.14

* [GIT PULL] objtools fix for v5.14
@ 2021-06-28  5:50 Ingo Molnar
  2021-06-28 19:34 ` pr-tracker-bot
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2021-06-28  5:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds
  Cc: linux-kernel, Josh Poimboeuf, Peter Zijlstra, Thomas Gleixner,
	Andrew Morton

Linus,

Please pull the latest objtool/urgent git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git objtool-urgent-2021-06-28

   # HEAD: e31694e0a7a709293319475d8001e05e31f2178c objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable

A single ELF format fix for a section flags mismatch bug that breaks
kernel tooling such as kpatch-build.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Josh Poimboeuf (1):
      objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable


 tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
index 523aa4157f80..bc821056aba9 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static int elf_add_alternative(struct elf *elf,
 	sec = find_section_by_name(elf, ".altinstructions");
 	if (!sec) {
 		sec = elf_create_section(elf, ".altinstructions",
-					 SHF_WRITE, size, 0);
+					 SHF_ALLOC, size, 0);
 
 		if (!sec) {
 			WARN_ELF("elf_create_section");

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