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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2021-06-23 10:42:28 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2021-06-24 08:55:20 +0200
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objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable
When objtool creates the .altinstructions section, it sets the SHF_WRITE flag to make the section writable -- unless the section had already been previously created by the kernel. The mismatch between kernel-created and objtool-created section flags can cause failures with external tooling (kpatch-build). And the section doesn't need to be writable anyway. Make the section flags consistent with the kernel's. Fixes: 9bc0bb50727c ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls") Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6c284ae89717889ea136f9f0064d914cd8329d31.1624462939.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
index 523aa4157f80..bc821056aba9 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static int elf_add_alternative(struct elf *elf,
sec = find_section_by_name(elf, ".altinstructions");
if (!sec) {
sec = elf_create_section(elf, ".altinstructions",
- SHF_WRITE, size, 0);
+ SHF_ALLOC, size, 0);
if (!sec) {
WARN_ELF("elf_create_section");