From: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
klp diff decides what changed by comparing the per-function checksums klp
checksum records in .discard.sym_checksum. Handed an object which was
never checksummed it has to say so; silently concluding that nothing
changed would be the worst available answer.
Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
---
.../tests/generic/test-missing-checksum.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
create mode 100755 tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-missing-checksum.sh
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-missing-checksum.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-missing-checksum.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..89a05b1869ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-missing-checksum.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# Without .discard.sym_checksum there is nothing to compare; concluding that
+# nothing changed would be worse than failing.
+
+. "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh"
+
+setup
+build_pair basic.c
+
+( cd "$workdir" && "$OBJTOOL" klp diff orig.o patched.o out.o ) \
+ > "$workdir/diff.log" 2>&1 && fail "klp diff accepted an unchecksummed object"
+
+grep -q 'sym_checksum' "$workdir/diff.log" ||
+ fail "expected a complaint about the checksum section, got: $(tail -1 "$workdir/diff.log")"
+
+pass "unchecksummed input rejected"
--
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