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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2019-02-28 14:17:50 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-04-03 11:02:24 +0200
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objtool: Handle function aliases
Function aliases result in different symbols for the same set of instructions; track a canonical symbol so there is a unique point of access. This again prepares the way for function attributes. And in particular the need for aliases comes from how KASAN uses them. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/elf.h
index bc97ed86b9cd..968265b4b4cd 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.h
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ struct symbol {
unsigned char bind, type;
unsigned long offset;
unsigned int len;
- struct symbol *pfunc, *cfunc;
+ struct symbol *pfunc, *cfunc, *alias;
};
struct rela {