If a .cold function is examined prior to it's parent, the link to the parent/child function can be overwritten when the parent is examined. Only update pfunc and cfunc if they were previously nil to prevent this from happening. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/objtool/elf.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index 84225679f96d..f953d3a15612 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -434,7 +434,13 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf) size_t pnamelen; if (sym->type != STT_FUNC) continue; - sym->pfunc = sym->cfunc = sym; + + if (sym->pfunc == NULL) + sym->pfunc = sym; + + if (sym->cfunc == NULL) + sym->cfunc = sym; + coldstr = strstr(sym->name, ".cold"); if (!coldstr) continue; -- 2.20.1