[tip: objtool/core] objtool/klp: Test rejection of a file-local static branch key

The following commit has been merged into the objtool/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     475d519928998c988a9972c45f0416e91e2fa281
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/475d519928998c988a9972c45f0416e91e2fa281
Author:        Song Liu <[email protected]>
AuthorDate:    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:43:36 -07:00
Committer:     Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
CommitterDate: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:21:45 -07:00

objtool/klp: Test rejection of a file-local static branch key

A static branch key owned by a module cannot be reached with a klp reloc:
late module patching allows the livepatch module to load first, leaving the
__jump_table entry unresolved for jump_label_add_module() to dereference.
validate_special_section_klp_reloc() rejects it at build time.

test-jump-label-module-key covers that for a global key.  A file-local one
takes a different route to the same check: the compiler references a static
through its section symbol plus an addend, so the key has to be resolved
from the section before it can be recognised as STT_OBJECT at all.  Until
commit f9fb44b0ecef ("objtool/klp: Fix detection of corrupt static
branch/call entries") it was not, and the reference was silently emitted.

Give the fixture a STATIC_KEY knob and cover it.  The test checks that the
input really does reference the key through its section, since without that
it is only a second copy of the existing test.

Verified by reverting commit f9fb44b0ecef ("objtool/klp: Fix detection of
corrupt static branch/call entries"): klp diff accepts the input and the
test fails, under both gcc and clang.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4
Based-on-test-by: Joe Lawrence <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
---
 tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-jump-label-module-static-key.sh | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-jump-label-module-static-key.sh

diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-jump-label-module-static-key.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-jump-label-module-static-key.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7bdcbaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-jump-label-module-static-key.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# A static branch key owned by a module is rejected whether the key is global
+# or file-local.
+#
+# The rejection matters because late module patching allows the livepatch
+# module to load before the module it depends on: the __jump_table klp reloc is
+# then unresolved, and jump_label_add_module() dereferences an uninitialized
+# pointer.  Catching it at build time is the only defence.
+#
+# test-jump-label-module-key covers the global key.  A file-local one reaches
+# the same check by a different route: the compiler emits the reference against
+# the section symbol plus an addend, so validate_special_section_klp_reloc()
+# has to resolve it to the underlying object before it can see a key at all.
+# Until it did, a static key was passed over as "not STT_OBJECT" and the
+# unsupported reference was emitted with nothing said.
+#
+# Fixed by f9fb44b0ecef ("objtool/klp: Fix detection of corrupt static
+# branch/call entries").
+
+. "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh"
+
+setup
+build_pair jump_label.c -DSTATIC_KEY -DMODNAME='"klp_testmod"'
+
+require_input_section __jump_table
+
+# The premise: the key is reached through its section symbol, not by name.
+# Without that this is just a second copy of test-jump-label-module-key.
+input_jump_relocs="$(in_relocs orig.o | awk '/rela__jump_table/,/^$/')"
+
+echo "$input_jump_relocs" | grep -q klp_test_key ||
+	fail "fixture produced no __jump_table reference to the key"
+echo "$input_jump_relocs" | grep -qE '\.(bss|data)\.klp_test_key' ||
+	probe_skip "compiler referenced the static key by name, not through its section"
+
+run_diff 255
+
+diff_log | grep -q 'unsupported static branch key klp_test_key' ||
+	fail "expected rejection, got: $(diff_log | tail -1)"
+[ -e "$workdir/out.o" ] &&
+	fail "output object produced for a rejected input"
+
+pass "module-owned file-local static branch key rejected"