[PATCH v6 03/25] objtool: Don't autodetect vmlinux.o

Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen at google.com
Mon Oct 12 20:31:41 EDT 2020


With LTO, we run objtool on vmlinux.o, but don't want noinstr
validation. This change requires --vmlinux to be passed to objtool
explicitly.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh       | 2 +-
 tools/objtool/builtin-check.c | 6 +-----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index e6e2d9e5ff48..372c3719f94c 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ objtool_link()
 	local objtoolopt;
 
 	if [ -n "${CONFIG_VMLINUX_VALIDATION}" ]; then
-		objtoolopt="check"
+		objtoolopt="check --vmlinux"
 		if [ -z "${CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER}" ]; then
 			objtoolopt="${objtoolopt} --no-fp"
 		fi
diff --git a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
index e92e76f69176..facfc10bc5dc 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ const struct option check_options[] = {
 
 int cmd_check(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
-	const char *objname, *s;
+	const char *objname;
 	struct objtool_file *file;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ int cmd_check(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	objname = argv[0];
 
-	s = strstr(objname, "vmlinux.o");
-	if (s && !s[9])
-		vmlinux = true;
-
 	file = objtool_open_read(objname);
 	if (!file)
 		return 1;
-- 
2.28.0.1011.ga647a8990f-goog




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