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objtool: Make .altinstructions section entry size consistent

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Commit e31694e0a7 ("objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable")
aligned objtool-created and kernel-created .altinstructions section
flags, but there remains a minor discrepency in their use of a section
entry size: objtool sets one while the kernel build does not.

While sh_entsize of sizeof(struct alt_instr) seems intuitive, this small
deviation can cause failures with external tooling (kpatch-build).

Fix this by creating new .altinstructions sections with sh_entsize of 0
and then later updating sec->sh_size as alternatives are added to the
section.  An added benefit is avoiding the data descriptor and buffer
created by elf_create_section(), but previously unused by
elf_add_alternative().

Fixes: 9bc0bb5072 ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls")
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210822225037.54620-2-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Cc: Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Joe Lawrence 2021-08-22 18:50:36 -04:00 committed by Josh Poimboeuf
parent 4d8b35968b
commit dc02368164
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@ -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_ALLOC, size, 0);
SHF_ALLOC, 0, 0);
if (!sec) {
WARN_ELF("elf_create_section");