[PATCH] objtool: Upgrade libelf-devel warning to error for CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Tue Oct 03 2017 - 21:10:53 EST


With CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER, if the user doesn't have libelf-devel
installed, and they don't see the make warning, their ORC unwinder will
be silently broken. Upgrade the warning to an error.

Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cf007a31d575..5445cbf4d9a0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -933,7 +933,11 @@ ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
ifeq ($(has_libelf),1)
objtool_target := tools/objtool FORCE
else
- $(warning "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel")
+ ifdef CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER
+ $(error "Cannot generate ORC metadata for CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel")
+ else
+ $(warning "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel")
+ endif
SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION := 1
export SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION
endif
--
2.13.6