Any data added to a section needs to be aligned in accordance with the
section's sh_addralign value. Particularly strings added to a .str1.8
section. Otherwise you may get some funky strings.
Fixes: dd590d4d57eb ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing
object files")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
---
tools/objtool/elf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index 2c02c7b49265..3da90686350d 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ void *elf_add_data(struct elf *elf, struct section *sec,
const void *data, size_
memcpy(sec->data->d_buf, data, size);
sec->data->d_size = size;
- sec->data->d_align = 1;
+ sec->data->d_align = sec->sh.sh_addralign;
offset = ALIGN(sec->sh.sh_size, sec->sh.sh_addralign);
sec->sh.sh_size = offset + size;
--
2.53.0