[PATCH] objtool: Support GCC 8 '-fnoreorder-functions'

[Josh Poimboeuf]

Since the following commit:

  cd77849a69cf ("objtool: Fix GCC 8 cold subfunction detection for aliased functions")

... if the kernel is built with EXTRA_CFLAGS='-fno-reorder-functions',
objtool can get stuck in an infinite loop.

That flag causes the new GCC 8 cold subfunctions to be placed in .text
instead of .text.unlikely.  But it also has an unfortunate quirk: in the
symbol table, the subfunction (e.g., nmi_panic.cold.7) is nested inside
the parent (nmi_panic).

That function overlap confuses objtool, and causes it to get into an
infinite loop in next_insn_same_func().  Here's Allan's description of
the loop:

  "Objtool iterates through the instructions in nmi_panic using
  next_insn_same_func. Once it reaches the end of nmi_panic at 0x534 it
  jumps to 0x528 as that's the start of nmi_panic.cold.7. However, since
  the instructions starting at 0x528 are still associated with nmi_panic
  objtool will get stuck in a loop, continually jumping back to 0x528
  after reaching 0x534."

Fix it by shortening the length of the parent function so that the
functions no longer overlap.

Reported-and-analyzed-by: Allan Xavier <allan.x.xavier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/objtool/elf.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index 4e60e105583e..0d1acb704f64 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -302,19 +302,34 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf)
 				continue;
 			sym->pfunc = sym->cfunc = sym;
 			coldstr = strstr(sym->name, ".cold.");
-			if (coldstr) {
-				coldstr[0] = '\0';
-				pfunc = find_symbol_by_name(elf, sym->name);
-				coldstr[0] = '.';
-
-				if (!pfunc) {
-					WARN("%s(): can't find parent function",
-					     sym->name);
-					goto err;
-				}
-
-				sym->pfunc = pfunc;
-				pfunc->cfunc = sym;
+			if (!coldstr)
+				continue;
+
+			coldstr[0] = '\0';
+			pfunc = find_symbol_by_name(elf, sym->name);
+			coldstr[0] = '.';
+
+			if (!pfunc) {
+				WARN("%s(): can't find parent function",
+				     sym->name);
+				goto err;
+			}
+
+			sym->pfunc = pfunc;
+			pfunc->cfunc = sym;
+
+			/*
+			 * Unfortunately, -fnoreorder-functions puts the child
+			 * inside the parent.  Remove the overlap so we can
+			 * have sane assumptions.
+			 *
+			 * Note that pfunc->len now no longer matches
+			 * pfunc->sym.st_size.
+			 */
+			if (sym->sec == pfunc->sec &&
+			    sym->offset >= pfunc->offset &&
+			    sym->offset + sym->len == pfunc->offset + pfunc->len) {
+				pfunc->len -= sym->len;
 			}
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.17.0