Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2018 01:21:44 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker |
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* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> Objtool seg faults when the gold linker is used with > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y and CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y. > > With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y, the .o file gets passed to the linker before > being passed to objtool. The gold linker seems to strip unused ELF > symbols by default, which confuses objtool and causes the seg fault when > it's trying to generate ORC metadata.
BTW., if it's still unfixed, could we fix that segfault as well, and turn it into a more useful failure message?
Thanks,
Ingo
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