Merge tag 'objtool-core-2026-10-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

- Add unit test suite for objtool klp functionality and
known

Merge tag 'objtool-core-2026-10-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

- Add unit test suite for objtool klp functionality and
known failure modes (by Song Liu and Puranjay Mohan,
with fixes by Joe Lawrence)

* tag 'objtool-core-2026-10-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
objtool/klp: Add test for ThinLTO symbols sharing a demangled name
objtool/klp: Add test for Clang switch jump tables
objtool/klp: Add test for UBSAN metadata in an unchanged function
objtool/klp: Add test for absolute and __ADDRESSABLE symbols
objtool/klp: Add test for a patch which strips a data annotation
objtool/klp: Add test for the alignment of cloned data sections
objtool/klp: Add test for alternative replacement code in checksums
objtool/klp: Add test for instruction operand checksums
objtool/klp: Add test for a static call introduced by the patch
objtool/klp: Add test for tracepoint and pr_debug static branch keys
objtool/klp: Add test for a static branch introduced by the patch
objtool/klp: Add test for symbols with no checksum entry of their own
objtool/klp: Add test for data object checksums
objtool/klp: Test text annotations on alternative replacements
objtool/klp: Test a hand-built livepatch module's static call keys
objtool/klp: Test rejection of a file-local static branch key
objtool/klp: Add test for symbols whose linkage the patch changes
objtool/klp: Add test for kCFI prefix symbols and traps
objtool/klp: Add test for __bug_table, __ex_table and __mcount_loc extraction
objtool/klp: Add test for static locals which must not be correlated
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objtool/klp: Add test for sympos resolved against a linked vmlinux

vmlinux is not like a module: the final link reorders sub-sections, so a
symbol's position has to come from the linked image rather

objtool/klp: Add test for sympos resolved against a linked vmlinux

vmlinux is not like a module: the final link reorders sub-sections, so a
symbol's position has to come from the linked image rather than from symbol
table order. klp diff bridges that with .klp.symid, and looks for it only
when the object it was handed is called vmlinux.o with a vmlinux beside it.

This was assigned to an end-to-end test on the assumption that it needs a
real kernel build. It needs "ld -r" and "ld -e 0", and takes a fraction of
a second.

The fixture places the static appearing first in the symbol table at the
higher address, and the link passes --sort-section=name to force the
reordering the kernel's linker script performs. Without that the two ways
of computing sympos agree, and a first version passed with the vmlinux path
disabled.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4
Based-on-test-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260916184351.2720310-39-song@kernel.org

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