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SubjectRe: [RFC v5 04/57] objtool: check: Ignore empty alternative groups
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 04:02:07PM +0000, Julien Thierry wrote:
> Atlernative section can contain entries for alternatives with no
> instructions. Objtool will currently crash when handling such an entry.
>
> Just skip that entry, but still give a warning to discourage useless
> entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
> ---
> tools/objtool/check.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
> index 5968e6f08891..27e5380e0e0b 100644
> --- a/tools/objtool/check.c
> +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
> @@ -866,6 +866,13 @@ static int add_special_section_alts(struct objtool_file *file)
> }
>
> if (special_alt->group) {
> + if (!special_alt->orig_len) {
> + WARN("empty alternative entry at %s+0x%lx",
> + orig_insn->sec->name,
> + orig_insn->offset);
> + continue;
> + }
> +

I think WARN_FUNC() can be used here instead.

--
Josh

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