On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 01:23:52PM +0100, Raphael Gault wrote: > On arm64 some object files contain data stored in the .text section. > This data is interpreted by objtool as instruction but can't be > identified as a valid one. In order to keep analysing those files we > introduce INSN_UNKNOWN type. The "unknown instruction" warning will thus > only be raised if such instructions are uncountered while validating an > execution branch. > > This change doesn't impact the x86 decoding logic since 0 is still used > as a way to specify an unknown type, raising the "unknown instruction" > warning during the decoding phase still. > > Signed-off-by: Raphael Gault <[email protected]>
Is there a reason such data can't be moved to .rodata? That would seem like the proper fix. -- Josh
