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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> | 2016-02-28 22:22:34 -0600 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-02-29 08:35:02 +0100 |
| commit | c0dd671686b2229e888ede77682ab0633b2a0dd7 (patch) | |
| tree | a8c3b5bafef79b1bc1d20ffec0355bde4ddec55c /scripts/mod | |
| parent | 319e305ca469d9484678d2916590005b08cc3b4b (diff) | |
objtool: Mark non-standard object files and directories
Code which runs outside the kernel's normal mode of operation often does
unusual things which can cause a static analysis tool like objtool to
emit false positive warnings:
- boot image
- vdso image
- relocation
- realmode
- efi
- head
- purgatory
- modpost
Set OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD for their related files and directories,
which will tell objtool to skip checking them. It's ok to skip them
because they don't affect runtime stack traces.
Also skip the following code which does the right thing with respect to
frame pointers, but is too "special" to be validated by a tool:
- entry
- mcount
Also skip the test_nx module because it modifies its exception handling
table at runtime, which objtool can't understand. Fortunately it's
just a test module so it doesn't matter much.
Currently objtool is the only user of OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD, but it
might eventually be useful for other tools.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/366c080e3844e8a5b6a0327dc7e8c2b90ca3baeb.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/mod')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/mod/Makefile | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/Makefile b/scripts/mod/Makefile index c11212ff3510..19d9bcadc0cc 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/Makefile +++ b/scripts/mod/Makefile @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD := y + hostprogs-y := modpost mk_elfconfig always := $(hostprogs-y) empty.o |