This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled objtool: is_fentry_call() crashes if call has no destination to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: objtool-is_fentry_call-crashes-if-call-has-no-destination.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 87cf61fe848ca8ddf091548671e168f52e8a718e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:36:10 +0200 Subject: objtool: is_fentry_call() crashes if call has no destination From: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 87cf61fe848ca8ddf091548671e168f52e8a718e upstream. Fix is_fentry_call() so that it works if a call has no destination set (call_dest). This needs to be done in order to support intra- function calls. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414103618.12657-2-alexandre.chartre@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Rui Qi <qirui.001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/objtool/check.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ static int decode_sections(struct objtoo static bool is_fentry_call(struct instruction *insn) { - if (insn->type == INSN_CALL && + if (insn->type == INSN_CALL && insn->call_dest && insn->call_dest->type == STT_NOTYPE && !strcmp(insn->call_dest->name, "__fentry__")) return true; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexandre.chartre@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/x86-speculation-support-intra-function-call-validation.patch queue-5.4/objtool-add-support-for-intra-function-calls.patch queue-5.4/objtool-is_fentry_call-crashes-if-call-has-no-destination.patch