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objtool: Fix "unexpected end of section" warning for alternatives 

Due to the short circuiting logic in next_insn_to_validate(), control
flow may silently transition from .altinstr_replacement to .text without
a corresponding nested call to validate_branch().

As a result the validate_branch() 'sec' variable doesn't get
reinitialized, which can trigger a confusing "unexpected end of section"
warning which blames .altinstr_replacement rather than the offending
fallthrough function.

Fix that by not caching the section.  There's no point in doing that
anyway.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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Josh Poimboeuf 2025-09-17 09:03:30 -07:00
parent 68245893cf
commit 4cdee7888f
1 changed files with 1 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -3512,15 +3512,12 @@ static int validate_branch(struct objtool_file *file, struct symbol *func,
{
struct alternative *alt;
struct instruction *next_insn, *prev_insn = NULL;
struct section *sec;
u8 visited;
int ret;
if (func && func->ignore)
return 0;
sec = insn->sec;
while (1) {
next_insn = next_insn_to_validate(file, insn);
@ -3760,7 +3757,7 @@ static int validate_branch(struct objtool_file *file, struct symbol *func,
WARN("%s%sunexpected end of section %s",
func ? func->name : "", func ? "(): " : "",
sec->name);
insn->sec->name);
return 1;
}