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authorPeter Zijlstra2021-03-26 16:12:11 +0100
committerIngo Molnar2021-04-02 12:45:05 +0200
commit2f2f7e47f0525cbaad5dd9675fd9d8aa8da12046 (patch)
treed1f3168e53e2fd5976917275a858710ff7b1342f /tools/objtool
parent9a7827b7789c630c1efdb121daa42c6e77dce97f (diff)
objtool: Add elf_create_undef_symbol()
Allow objtool to create undefined symbols; this allows creating relocations to symbols not currently in the symbol table. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210326151300.064743095@infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/elf.c60
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h1
2 files changed, 61 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index 8457218dcf22..d08f5f3670f8 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -715,6 +715,66 @@ static int elf_add_string(struct elf *elf, struct section *strtab, char *str)
return len;
}
+struct symbol *elf_create_undef_symbol(struct elf *elf, const char *name)
+{
+ struct section *symtab;
+ struct symbol *sym;
+ Elf_Data *data;
+ Elf_Scn *s;
+
+ sym = malloc(sizeof(*sym));
+ if (!sym) {
+ perror("malloc");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ memset(sym, 0, sizeof(*sym));
+
+ sym->name = strdup(name);
+
+ sym->sym.st_name = elf_add_string(elf, NULL, sym->name);
+ if (sym->sym.st_name == -1)
+ return NULL;
+
+ sym->sym.st_info = GELF_ST_INFO(STB_GLOBAL, STT_NOTYPE);
+ // st_other 0
+ // st_shndx 0
+ // st_value 0
+ // st_size 0
+
+ symtab = find_section_by_name(elf, ".symtab");
+ if (!symtab) {
+ WARN("can't find .symtab");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ s = elf_getscn(elf->elf, symtab->idx);
+ if (!s) {
+ WARN_ELF("elf_getscn");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ data = elf_newdata(s);
+ if (!data) {
+ WARN_ELF("elf_newdata");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ data->d_buf = &sym->sym;
+ data->d_size = sizeof(sym->sym);
+ data->d_align = 1;
+
+ sym->idx = symtab->len / sizeof(sym->sym);
+
+ symtab->len += data->d_size;
+ symtab->changed = true;
+
+ sym->sec = find_section_by_index(elf, 0);
+
+ elf_add_symbol(elf, sym);
+
+ return sym;
+}
+
struct section *elf_create_section(struct elf *elf, const char *name,
unsigned int sh_flags, size_t entsize, int nr)
{
diff --git a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
index 463f329f1c66..45e5ede363b0 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ int elf_write_insn(struct elf *elf, struct section *sec,
unsigned long offset, unsigned int len,
const char *insn);
int elf_write_reloc(struct elf *elf, struct reloc *reloc);
+struct symbol *elf_create_undef_symbol(struct elf *elf, const char *name);
int elf_write(struct elf *elf);
void elf_close(struct elf *elf);