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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2019-02-28 14:17:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-04-03 11:02:24 +0200 |
| commit | 09f30d83d33029faf6377a86f5ae80a658af9254 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ba85425fb00f070251d985ba7c0c5e669601393 /tools/objtool/elf.c | |
| parent | a4d09dde9093a04a9b48fb9e5ef3177bdfaff199 (diff) | |
objtool: Handle function aliases
Function aliases result in different symbols for the same set of
instructions; track a canonical symbol so there is a unique point of
access.
This again prepares the way for function attributes. And in particular
the need for aliases comes from how KASAN uses them.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool/elf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/objtool/elf.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index b8f3cca8e58b..dd198d53387d 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int read_sections(struct elf *elf) static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf) { struct section *symtab, *sec; - struct symbol *sym, *pfunc; + struct symbol *sym, *pfunc, *alias; struct list_head *entry, *tmp; int symbols_nr, i; char *coldstr; @@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf) return -1; } memset(sym, 0, sizeof(*sym)); + alias = sym; sym->idx = i; @@ -288,11 +289,17 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf) break; } - if (sym->offset == s->offset && sym->len >= s->len) { - entry = tmp; - break; + if (sym->offset == s->offset) { + if (sym->len == s->len && alias == sym) + alias = s; + + if (sym->len >= s->len) { + entry = tmp; + break; + } } } + sym->alias = alias; list_add(&sym->list, entry); hash_add(sym->sec->symbol_hash, &sym->hash, sym->idx); } |