clang can generate (with -g -Wa,--compress-debug-sections) 4-byte aligned DWARF sections that declare themselves to be 8-byte aligned in the section header. Since DWARF sections are dropped during linking anyway, just skip running the sanity checks on them. Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZXcFRJVKbKxtEL5t@xxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/linker.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c b/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c index 52a2901e8bd0..16bca56002ab 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c @@ -719,6 +719,9 @@ static int linker_sanity_check_elf(struct src_obj *obj) return -EINVAL; } + if (is_dwarf_sec_name(sec->sec_name)) + continue; + if (sec->shdr->sh_addralign && !is_pow_of_2(sec->shdr->sh_addralign)) { pr_warn("ELF section #%zu alignment %llu is non pow-of-2 alignment in %s\n", sec->sec_idx, (long long unsigned)sec->shdr->sh_addralign, base-commit: 733763285acfe8dffd6e39ad2ed3d1222b32a901 -- 2.42.0