Commit-ID: 9cfffb116887b1b7c51cd4e3fa5790dc52a0758f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/9cfffb116887b1b7c51cd4e3fa5790dc52a0758f Author: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:22:53 -0500 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:12:36 +0200
objtool: Skip all "unreachable instruction" warnings for gcov kernels Recently objtool has started reporting a few "unreachable instruction" warnings when CONFIG_GCOV is enabled for newer versions of GCC. Usually this warning means there's some new control flow that objtool doesn't understand. But in this case, objtool is correct and the instructions really are inaccessible. It's an annoying quirk of gcov, but it's harmless, so it's ok to just silence the warnings. With older versions of GCC, it was relatively easy to detect gcov-specific instructions and to skip any unreachable warnings produced by them. But GCC 6 has gotten craftier. Instead of continuing to play whack-a-mole with gcov, just use a bigger, more permanent hammer and disable unreachable warnings for the whole file when gcov is enabled. This is fine to do because a) unreachable warnings are usually of questionable value; and b) gcov isn't used for production kernels and we can relax the checks a bit there. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/38d5c87d61d9cd46486dd2c86f46603dff0df86f.1476393584.git.jpoim...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- tools/objtool/builtin-check.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c index a00a05d..4490601 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c @@ -97,6 +97,19 @@ static struct instruction *next_insn_same_sec(struct objtool_file *file, return next; } +static bool gcov_enabled(struct objtool_file *file) +{ + struct section *sec; + struct symbol *sym; + + list_for_each_entry(sec, &file->elf->sections, list) + list_for_each_entry(sym, &sec->symbol_list, list) + if (!strncmp(sym->name, "__gcov_.", 8)) + return true; + + return false; +} + #define for_each_insn(file, insn) \ list_for_each_entry(insn, &file->insn_list, list) @@ -1041,34 +1054,6 @@ static int validate_branch(struct objtool_file *file, return 0; } -static bool is_gcov_insn(struct instruction *insn) -{ - struct rela *rela; - struct section *sec; - struct symbol *sym; - unsigned long offset; - - rela = find_rela_by_dest_range(insn->sec, insn->offset, insn->len); - if (!rela) - return false; - - if (rela->sym->type != STT_SECTION) - return false; - - sec = rela->sym->sec; - offset = rela->addend + insn->offset + insn->len - rela->offset; - - list_for_each_entry(sym, &sec->symbol_list, list) { - if (sym->type != STT_OBJECT) - continue; - - if (offset >= sym->offset && offset < sym->offset + sym->len) - return (!memcmp(sym->name, "__gcov0.", 8)); - } - - return false; -} - static bool is_kasan_insn(struct instruction *insn) { return (insn->type == INSN_CALL && @@ -1090,9 +1075,6 @@ static bool ignore_unreachable_insn(struct symbol *func, if (insn->type == INSN_NOP) return true; - if (is_gcov_insn(insn)) - return true; - /* * Check if this (or a subsequent) instruction is related to * CONFIG_UBSAN or CONFIG_KASAN. @@ -1153,6 +1135,19 @@ static int validate_functions(struct objtool_file *file) ignore_unreachable_insn(func, insn)) continue; + /* + * gcov produces a lot of unreachable + * instructions. If we get an unreachable + * warning and the file has gcov enabled, just + * ignore it, and all other such warnings for + * the file. + */ + if (!file->ignore_unreachables && + gcov_enabled(file)) { + file->ignore_unreachables = true; + continue; + } + WARN_FUNC("function has unreachable instruction", insn->sec, insn->offset); warnings++; }
