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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> | 2021-01-14 16:14:01 -0600 |
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| committer | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> | 2021-01-21 15:49:58 -0600 |
| commit | 1d489151e9f9d1647110277ff77282fe4d96d09b (patch) | |
| tree | be12758e05f70ca75ca391f9219a7015a6247f6a /tools | |
| parent | 655cf86548a3938538642a6df27dd359e13c86bd (diff) | |
objtool: Don't fail on missing symbol table
Thanks to a recent binutils change which doesn't generate unused
symbols, it's now possible for thunk_64.o be completely empty without
CONFIG_PREEMPTION: no text, no data, no symbols.
We could edit the Makefile to only build that file when
CONFIG_PREEMPTION is enabled, but that will likely create confusion
if/when the thunks end up getting used by some other code again.
Just ignore it and move on.
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1254
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/objtool/elf.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index f9682db33cca..d8421e1d06be 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -380,8 +380,11 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf) symtab = find_section_by_name(elf, ".symtab"); if (!symtab) { - WARN("missing symbol table"); - return -1; + /* + * A missing symbol table is actually possible if it's an empty + * .o file. This can happen for thunk_64.o. + */ + return 0; } symtab_shndx = find_section_by_name(elf, ".symtab_shndx"); |