The following commit has been merged into the objtool/urgent branch of tip: Commit-ID: 46c7405df7de8deb97229eacebcee96d61415f3f Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/46c7405df7de8deb97229eacebcee96d61415f3f Author: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed, 12 May 2021 19:42:10 +02:00 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Wed, 12 May 2021 21:16:53 +02:00 objtool: Fix elf_create_undef_symbol() endianness Currently x86 cross-compilation fails on big endian system with: x86_64-cross-ld: init/main.o: invalid string offset 488112128 >= 6229 for section `.strtab' Mark new ELF data in elf_create_undef_symbol() as symbol, so that libelf does endianness handling correctly. Fixes: 2f2f7e47f052 ("objtool: Add elf_create_undef_symbol()") Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/patch-1.thread-6c9df9.git-d39264656387.your-ad-here.call-01620841104-ext-2554@work.hours --- tools/objtool/elf.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index d08f5f3..743c2e9 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -762,6 +762,7 @@ struct symbol *elf_create_undef_symbol(struct elf *elf, const char *name) data->d_buf = &sym->sym; data->d_size = sizeof(sym->sym); data->d_align = 1; + data->d_type = ELF_T_SYM; sym->idx = symtab->len / sizeof(sym->sym);