Commit 7170cf47 authored by Julien Thierry's avatar Julien Thierry Committed by Ingo Molnar

objtool: Ignore empty alternatives

The .alternatives section can contain entries with no original
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: default avatarJulien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 0699e551
......@@ -905,6 +905,12 @@ static int add_special_section_alts(struct objtool_file *file)
}
if (special_alt->group) {
if (!special_alt->orig_len) {
WARN_FUNC("empty alternative entry",
orig_insn->sec, orig_insn->offset);
continue;
}
ret = handle_group_alt(file, special_alt, orig_insn,
&new_insn);
if (ret)
......
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