[PATCH v2 40/58] objtool/klp: Add test for __bug_table, __ex_table and __mcount_loc extraction
From: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-14 06:29:01
Subsystem:
objtool, the rest · Maintainers:
Josh Poimboeuf, Peter Zijlstra, Linus Torvalds
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 [off-list ref] Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> --- .../tests/x86/fixtures/special_sections.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++ .../tests/x86/test-special-sections.sh | 42 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 119 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/objtool/tests/x86/fixtures/special_sections.c create mode 100755 tools/objtool/tests/x86/test-special-sections.sh
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/x86/fixtures/special_sections.c b/tools/objtool/tests/x86/fixtures/special_sections.c
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+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/x86/fixtures/special_sections.c@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* + * A special section entry belonging to a patched function. SPECIAL_SEC picks + * which section, since klp diff treats eight of them alike and each needs + * extracting for the patched function and no other. + * + * The entry is written out by hand so the fixture builds without kernel + * headers. Only the leading relocation matters to klp diff; the rest is + * padded to the section's real entry size, because the entries have to be the + * right length for the boundaries between them to fall in the right places. + * + * SPECIAL_RELOCS covers __ex_table, whose entries relocate both the faulting + * instruction and its fixup; objtool rejects one with only the first. + */ + +#ifndef SPECIAL_SEC +#define SPECIAL_SEC "__bug_table" +#endif +#ifndef SPECIAL_ENTSIZE +#define SPECIAL_ENTSIZE 12 +#endif +#ifndef SPECIAL_RELOCS +#define SPECIAL_RELOCS 1 +#endif + +#define STR_(x) #x +#define STR(x) STR_(x) + +static const char __modinfo[] + __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), used, aligned(1))) = "\0name=vmlinux"; + +/* + * other() gets an entry of its own, so that "the untouched function's entry + * was not dragged in" is a question the section can actually answer. With + * only target() contributing, there is nothing for klp diff to leave behind + * and the negative assertion holds however the extraction behaves. + */ +int other(int x) +{ + asm volatile( + "3: nop\n\t" + "4:\n\t" + ".pushsection " SPECIAL_SEC ", \"aM\", @progbits, " + STR(SPECIAL_ENTSIZE) "\n\t" + ".long 3b - .\n\t" +#if SPECIAL_RELOCS > 1 + ".long 4b - .\n\t" + ".fill " STR(SPECIAL_ENTSIZE) " - 8, 1, 0\n\t" +#else + ".fill " STR(SPECIAL_ENTSIZE) " - 4, 1, 0\n\t" +#endif + ".popsection\n\t"); + + return x + 9; +} + +int target(int x) +{ + asm volatile( + "1: nop\n\t" + "2:\n\t" + ".pushsection " SPECIAL_SEC ", \"aM\", @progbits, " + STR(SPECIAL_ENTSIZE) "\n\t" + ".long 1b - .\n\t" +#if SPECIAL_RELOCS > 1 + ".long 2b - .\n\t" + ".fill " STR(SPECIAL_ENTSIZE) " - 8, 1, 0\n\t" +#else + ".fill " STR(SPECIAL_ENTSIZE) " - 4, 1, 0\n\t" +#endif + ".popsection\n\t"); +#ifdef PATCHED + return x + 2; +#else + return x + 1; +#endif +}
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/x86/test-special-sections.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/x86/test-special-sections.sh
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+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/x86/test-special-sections.sh@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +# +# klp diff extracts entries from eight special sections. Between them the +# existing tests reach .kcfi_traps, __jump_table, .static_call_sites and +# .altinstructions; __bug_table, __ex_table and __mcount_loc are covered by +# nothing, though the same extraction code serves all of them. +# +# Losing an entry is quiet in every case and wrong in a different way for each: +# a WARN() in patched code that no longer reports where it came from, an +# exception fixup that is simply not there when the faulting instruction traps, +# a function ftrace can no longer see. + +. "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh" + + +# section, entry size, relocations per entry +for spec in "__bug_table 12 1" "__ex_table 12 2" "__mcount_loc 8 1"; do + set -- $spec + sec=$1 + + # A fresh workdir per section: run_diff caches its checksums. + setup + build_pair special_sections.c \ + -DSPECIAL_SEC="\"$1\"" -DSPECIAL_ENTSIZE="$2" -DSPECIAL_RELOCS="$3" + + assert_input_section "$sec" + run_diff + + # Extracted, and pointing at the function that was patched. + assert_section "$sec" + assert_reloc_sym "$sec" target + assert_patched target + + # Nothing belonging to the function that was not. + assert_not_patched other + assert_no_reloc_sym "$sec" other + + cleanup +done + +pass "__bug_table, __ex_table and __mcount_loc entries extracted"
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