Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jan 2018 22:20:46 -0600 | From | Josh Poimboeuf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker |
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 01:21:44AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Objtool seg faults when the gold linker is used with > > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y and CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y. > > > > With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y, the .o file gets passed to the linker before > > being passed to objtool. The gold linker seems to strip unused ELF > > symbols by default, which confuses objtool and causes the seg fault when > > it's trying to generate ORC metadata. > > BTW., if it's still unfixed, could we fix that segfault as well, and turn it into > a more useful failure message?
Good point. I'll fix up this seg fault, and the other one found/introduced when adding retpoline support.
-- Josh
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