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[RFC,07/28] scripts/kallsyms: Avoid 0x0 as the relative base

Message ID 20240925150059.3955569-37-ardb+git@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series x86: Rely on toolchain for relocatable code | expand

Commit Message

Ard Biesheuvel Sept. 25, 2024, 3:01 p.m. UTC 
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

In some cases, LLVM's lld linker may emit the following symbol into the
symbol table

0000000000000000 ? _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_

and its presence throws off the relative base logic in kallsyms. Since
0x0 is never a valid relative base, just ignore it.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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 scripts/kallsyms.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 03852da3d249..09757d300a05 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@  static void record_relative_base(void)
 	unsigned int i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++)
-		if (!symbol_absolute(table[i])) {
+		if (table[i]->addr && !symbol_absolute(table[i])) {
 			/*
 			 * The table is sorted by address.
 			 * Take the first non-absolute symbol value.