| 32b2cf11 | 16-Sep-2026 |
Song Liu <song@kernel.org> |
objtool/klp: Add test for alternative replacement code in checksums
checksum_update_insn() walks insn->alts after hashing the instruction
itself: the alternative's type, and where the replacement fo
objtool/klp: Add test for alternative replacement code in checksums
checksum_update_insn() walks insn->alts after hashing the instruction
itself: the alternative's type, and where the replacement forms a group,
its feature number and every instruction in it. A patch which edits only
the replacement -- code that runs on some CPUs and not others -- still has
to move the function's checksum.
When it does not, klp diff calls the function unchanged and leaves it out.
The patch ships the old replacement, and the bug is fixed only on machines
whose CPU takes the other arm. Which machines those are depends on the
feature bit, so it presents as a machine-specific bug rather than a missing
patch.
insn->alts is built by objtool's check pass, not by the compiler, so the
pair goes through that first. --mcount is the action used: it is the
cheapest one that does not also need --link.
Two of the three paths are isolated. Skipping the alts walk and dropping
the feature hash both make this fail, and the second of those only exists
inside the alt_group branch, so reaching it proves the grouped path is
taken. The alternative's type is hashed but not varied here -- the fixture
emits one kind of alternative -- so that line is covered without being
isolated, as is the in_alt recursion guard, which wants nested
alternatives.
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/20260916184351.2720310-53-song@kernel.org
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| c4717a16 | 16-Sep-2026 |
Song Liu <song@kernel.org> |
objtool/klp: Test text annotations on alternative replacements
The kernel annotates instructions inside an ALTERNATIVE's replacement
wherever objtool has to be told something about them -- a retpoli
objtool/klp: Test text annotations on alternative replacements
The kernel annotates instructions inside an ALTERNATIVE's replacement
wherever objtool has to be told something about them -- a retpoline-safe
indirect branch, a deliberately absent ENDBR. klp diff dropped those
annotations, for two reasons: replacement code has no real symbol, so the
NOTYPE fake symbol objtool invents for it was not recognised as worth
keeping a reference to, and .discard.annotate_insn was processed before
.altinstructions, so the replacement it named had no clone yet.
Nothing fails at build time when the annotation goes missing. It surfaces
later as objtool warning about, or rejecting, the very code the annotation
was there to explain.
The fixture keeps the replacement label global, as empty_alternative.c
does, so the relocations name it instead of .altinstr_replacement plus an
addend -- which klp diff rejects outright. The label is still NOTYPE,
which is the property under test. The test asserts the relocation as well
as the section, since an entry whose relocation was dropped would otherwise
pass.
Verified by reverting commit 62a7a01fde87 ("objtool/klp: Fix extraction of
text annotations for alternatives"): the output has no
.discard.annotate_insn at all and the test fails, under both gcc and clang.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260916184351.2720310-46-song@kernel.org
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| 841c8c57 | 16-Sep-2026 |
Song Liu <song@kernel.org> |
objtool/klp: Test a hand-built livepatch module's static call keys
__SCK__* static call keys are not exported; modules are given read-only
access at load time. Livepatch modules built by klp-build
objtool/klp: Test a hand-built livepatch module's static call keys
__SCK__* static call keys are not exported; modules are given read-only
access at load time. Livepatch modules built by klp-build do have full
access to theirs, and commit 164c9201e1da ("objtool: Add base objtool
support for livepatch modules") added a check on that basis -- but a
livepatch module can also be written by hand, as everything under
samples/livepatch is, and such a module hits an unexported key as soon as
it does anything expanding to a static call. With
CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG that includes allocating memory, which is
how livepatch-shadow-fix1 came to fail to build.
Cover it, with the plain module as a control: it takes the same path and
has always been accepted, so a test that built only the livepatch variant
could not tell this fix from the check being deleted.
This is objtool's ordinary check pass rather than a klp subcommand, which
is the first test here to exercise it -- and is the point, since that pass
is what runs over a hand-built livepatch module during a normal kernel
build.
Verified by reverting commit f495054bd12e ("objtool/klp: Fix unexported
static call key access for manually built livepatch modules"): objtool
reports "can't find static_call_key symbol: __SCK__klp_test_call" and the
test fails, under both gcc and clang.
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/20260916184351.2720310-45-song@kernel.org
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| 62ef2041 | 16-Sep-2026 |
Song Liu <song@kernel.org> |
objtool/klp: Add test for kCFI prefix symbols and traps
Two properties, asserted separately because they fail differently:
- the __cfi_<func> prefix symbol has to be carried with the patched
objtool/klp: Add test for kCFI prefix symbols and traps
Two properties, asserted separately because they fail differently:
- the __cfi_<func> prefix symbol has to be carried with the patched
function, or the function has no type identity and indirect calls to it
trap;
- its .kcfi_traps entry has to be extracted, or the trap is not
recognised as a CFI failure and a clean report becomes an oops.
test-special-section hand-assembles a .kcfi_traps entry, which is what
makes it catch commit 7df1638df97b ("objtool/klp: Fix .kcfi_traps special
section extraction"). Nothing until now built real kCFI code.
This tests the behavior of commit da4326573ae8 ("objtool/klp: Fix kCFI trap
handling"). Commit f7ceffd21a8a ("objtool/klp: Fix kCFI prefix
finding/cloning") cannot be tested as such, its code having been rewritten
by commit fe6a87e0abac ("objtool: Improve and simplify prefix symbol
detection"); this guards the current implementation's behaviour instead.
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/20260916184351.2720310-42-song@kernel.org
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| ce30479f | 16-Sep-2026 |
Song Liu <song@kernel.org> |
objtool/klp: Add test for __bug_table, __ex_table and __mcount_loc extraction
Three special sections with no coverage. An entry that is not carried into
the patch is not a build failure: the patche
objtool/klp: Add test for __bug_table, __ex_table and __mcount_loc extraction
Three special sections with no coverage. An entry that is not carried into
the patch is not a build failure: the patched function simply loses its
WARN_ON location, its exception fixup, or its ftrace callsite, and nobody
finds out until one of them is needed.
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/20260916184351.2720310-41-song@kernel.org
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