Thread (88 messages) flat view 88 messages, 2 authors, 7d ago
COOLING7d

Revision v2 of 5 in this series.

Revisions (5)
  1. v1 [diff vs current]
  2. v2 current
  3. v3 [diff vs current]
  4. v4 [diff vs current]
  5. v5 [diff vs current]

[PATCH v2 17/58] objtool/klp: Add test for special section extraction

From: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-14 06:27:03
Subsystem: objtool, the rest · Maintainers: Josh Poimboeuf, Peter Zijlstra, Linus Torvalds

From: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>

create_fake_symbols() gives each special section entry a symbol so entries
can be extracted individually.  Entries with ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL are
handled first; the rest have their boundaries derived from the entry or
relocation size.

The second pass has to key off whether the first one created symbols, not
off whether the section already has something at offset 0.  Clang puts an
assembler-local label at the start of .kcfi_traps, and treating that as
already handled means nothing is extracted: klp diff still reports the
changed function and succeeds, but the special section is missing from the
module.

The fixture reproduces the shape without needing CFI or x86.

Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
---
 .../tests/generic/fixtures/special_section.c  | 24 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../tests/generic/test-special-section.sh     | 20 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/special_section.c
 create mode 100755 tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-special-section.sh
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/special_section.c b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/special_section.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d28c5541e337
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/special_section.c
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Special section entry with no ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL annotation and a local
+ * label at offset 0, the shape Clang produces for .kcfi_traps.
+ */
+
+static const char __modinfo[]
+	__attribute__((section(".modinfo"), used, aligned(1))) = "\0name=vmlinux";
+
+int target(int x)
+{
+	asm volatile(
+		"1:\n\t"
+		".pushsection	.kcfi_traps, \"a\"\n\t"
+		".balign	4\n\t"
+		"trap_marker:\n\t"
+		".long		1b - .\n\t"
+		".popsection\n\t");
+#ifdef PATCHED
+	return x + 2;
+#else
+	return x + 1;
+#endif
+}
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-special-section.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-special-section.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..b6a9139c0062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-special-section.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# A .kcfi_traps entry belonging to a patched function must be extracted even
+# without ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL and with a local label already at offset 0.
+
+. "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh"
+
+setup
+build_pair special_section.c
+
+in_symbols orig.o | grep -q 'trap_marker' ||
+	probe_skip "fixture produced no .kcfi_traps on this arch"
+
+run_diff
+
+assert_patched target
+assert_section ".kcfi_traps"
+
+pass ".kcfi_traps extracted despite a local label at offset 0"
-- 
2.53.0-Meta
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help