Peter Zijlstra
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commit 4abff6d4 upstream. Occasionally objtool driven code patching (think .static_call_sites .retpoline_sites etc..) goes sideways and it tries to patch an instruction that doesn't match. Much head-scatching and cursing later the problem is as outlined below and affects every section that objtool generates for us, very much including the ORC data. The below uses .static_call_sites because it's convenient for demonstration purposes, but as mentioned the ORC sections, .retpoline_sites and __mount_loc are all similarly affected. Consider: foo-weak.c: extern void __SCT__foo(void); __attribute__((weak)) void foo(void) { return __SCT__foo(); } foo.c: extern void __SCT__foo(void); extern void my_foo(void); void foo(void) { my_foo(); return __SCT__foo(); } These generate the obvious code (gcc -O2 -fcf-protection=none -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -c foo*.c): foo-weak.o: 0000000000000000 <foo>: 0: ...