objtool: Add elf_create_undef_symbol()

Allow objtool to create undefined symbols; this allows creating
relocations to symbols not currently in the symbol table.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210326151300.064743095@infradead.org

diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index 8457218dcf2292959bef21cf12a71b9ac3b2ae9d..d08f5f3670f88c28c2580c3be870834a180f0ab5 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -715,6 +715,66 @@ static int elf_add_string(struct elf *elf, struct section *strtab, char *str)
        return len;
 }
 
+struct symbol *elf_create_undef_symbol(struct elf *elf, const char *name)
+{
+       struct section *symtab;
+       struct symbol *sym;
+       Elf_Data *data;
+       Elf_Scn *s;
+
+       sym = malloc(sizeof(*sym));
+       if (!sym) {
+               perror("malloc");
+               return NULL;
+       }
+       memset(sym, 0, sizeof(*sym));
+
+       sym->name = strdup(name);
+
+       sym->sym.st_name = elf_add_string(elf, NULL, sym->name);
+       if (sym->sym.st_name == -1)
+               return NULL;
+
+       sym->sym.st_info = GELF_ST_INFO(STB_GLOBAL, STT_NOTYPE);
+       // st_other 0
+       // st_shndx 0
+       // st_value 0
+       // st_size 0
+
+       symtab = find_section_by_name(elf, ".symtab");
+       if (!symtab) {
+               WARN("can't find .symtab");
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
+       s = elf_getscn(elf->elf, symtab->idx);
+       if (!s) {
+               WARN_ELF("elf_getscn");
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
+       data = elf_newdata(s);
+       if (!data) {
+               WARN_ELF("elf_newdata");
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
+       data->d_buf = &sym->sym;
+       data->d_size = sizeof(sym->sym);
+       data->d_align = 1;
+
+       sym->idx = symtab->len / sizeof(sym->sym);
+
+       symtab->len += data->d_size;
+       symtab->changed = true;
+
+       sym->sec = find_section_by_index(elf, 0);
+
+       elf_add_symbol(elf, sym);
+
+       return sym;
+}
+
 struct section *elf_create_section(struct elf *elf, const char *name,
                                   unsigned int sh_flags, size_t entsize, int nr)
 {

diff --git a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
index 463f329f1c6653381908042105bf00bb26d7ca11..45e5ede363b07a1d684c40520d9a16913bba2e39 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ int elf_write_insn(struct elf *elf, struct section *sec,
                   unsigned long offset, unsigned int len,
                   const char *insn);
 int elf_write_reloc(struct elf *elf, struct reloc *reloc);
+struct symbol *elf_create_undef_symbol(struct elf *elf, const char *name);
 int elf_write(struct elf *elf);
 void elf_close(struct elf *elf);