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 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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