[PATCH v5 37/58] objtool/klp: Add test for sympos in module objects
From: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-16 18:47:00
Subsystem:
objtool, the rest · Maintainers:
Josh Poimboeuf, Peter Zijlstra, Linus Torvalds
klp-sympos.c had no coverage at all. sympos disambiguates same-named symbols for livepatch, counting from 1, with 0 meaning the name is unique. Resolving to the wrong one is not a load failure -- it is a patch quietly wired to the wrong object. Covers the module path, where the position is a count in symbol table order and klp diff can work it out from the object alone. 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/generic/fixtures/sympos_dup.c | 32 ++++++++++++ tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-sympos.sh | 51 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 83 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/sympos_dup.c create mode 100755 tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-sympos.sh
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/sympos_dup.c b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/sympos_dup.c
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+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/sympos_dup.c@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* + * A static whose name recurs in every translation unit that includes it. + * Compiled once for a single-copy object and twice, partially linked, for one + * with duplicates -- which is the only case where sympos is non-zero. + * + * FUNC_NAME keeps the referencing functions distinct so both get patched. + * Only the first copy carries .modinfo; two would be a second thing to + * disambiguate and is not what this fixture is about. + */ + +#ifndef FUNC_NAME +#define FUNC_NAME use_a +#endif + +#ifndef NO_MODINFO +static const char __modinfo[] + __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), used, aligned(1))) = "\0name=vmlinux"; +#endif + +/* volatile so it survives as an STT_OBJECT rather than being folded away */ +static volatile int dup_counter = 1; + +int FUNC_NAME(int x) +{ + dup_counter += x; +#ifdef PATCHED + return dup_counter + 1; +#else + return dup_counter; +#endif +}
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-sympos.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-sympos.sh
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+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-sympos.sh@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +# +# sympos is what livepatch uses to tell duplicate symbol names apart in the +# patched object: which "dup_counter" of several the relocation means. Get it +# wrong and the patch resolves to the wrong object at load time, silently. +# +# klp_find_sympos() reports 0 when a name is unique and a 1-based position when +# it is not, so both need checking -- always reporting a position, or never, +# each looks right in one of the two cases. +# +# This is the module path, counting symbol table order. vmlinux is reordered +# by the final link and goes through .klp.symid instead; that needs a linked +# vmlinux next to vmlinux.o and is not covered here. + +. "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh" + +setup + +# One copy: the name is unique, so there is nothing to disambiguate. +build_one sympos_dup.c orig.o -DFUNC_NAME=use_a +build_one sympos_dup.c patched.o -DFUNC_NAME=use_a -DPATCHED +run_diff + +assert_klp_sympos dup_counter 0 + +# Two copies: positions, in symbol table order. +for p in "" "-DPATCHED"; do + # shellcheck disable=SC2086 + build_one sympos_dup.c "a$p.o" -DFUNC_NAME=use_a $p + # shellcheck disable=SC2086 + build_one sympos_dup.c "b$p.o" -DFUNC_NAME=use_b -DNO_MODINFO $p +done +partial_link "$workdir/orig.o" "$workdir/a.o" "$workdir/b.o" || + probe_skip "partial link unavailable" +partial_link "$workdir/patched.o" "$workdir/a-DPATCHED.o" "$workdir/b-DPATCHED.o" || + probe_skip "partial link unavailable" + +# Without duplicates in the input there is nothing for sympos to number. +[ "$(count_input_symbols orig.o dup_counter)" = 2 ] || + fail "fixture did not produce two dup_counter symbols" + +run_diff + +assert_klp_sympos dup_counter 1 +assert_klp_sympos dup_counter 2 +# ... and nothing still claiming the name is unique +out_symbols | grep -qE '\.klp\.sym\.[^.]+\.dup_counter,0([[:space:]]|$)' && + fail "sympos 0 emitted for a duplicated symbol" + +pass "sympos numbers duplicate symbols and stays 0 for unique ones"
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