The following commit has been merged into the objtool/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 069cdb3f72e947c7564240fa4c5468b7e514b679 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/069cdb3f72e947c7564240fa4c5468b7e514b679 Author: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:44:05 +08:00 Committer: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:34:07 -05:00 objtool: Remove redundant .rodata section name comparison If the prefix of section name is not '.rodata', the following function call can never return 0. strcmp(sec->name, C_JUMP_TABLE_SECTION) So the name comparison is pointless, just remove it. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/objtool/check.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c index 10fbfb3..276bce3 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -1372,8 +1372,8 @@ static void mark_rodata(struct objtool_file *file) * .rodata.str1.* sections are ignored; they don't contain jump tables. */ for_each_sec(file, sec) { - if ((!strncmp(sec->name, ".rodata", 7) && !strstr(sec->name, ".str1.")) || - !strcmp(sec->name, C_JUMP_TABLE_SECTION)) { + if (!strncmp(sec->name, ".rodata", 7) && + !strstr(sec->name, ".str1.")) { sec->rodata = true; found = true; }