Commit a8ff29f0 authored Jan 27, 2026 by Josh Poimboeuf

livepatch/klp-build: Require Clang assembler >= 20



Some special sections specify their ELF section entsize, for example:

  .pushsection section, "M", @progbits, 8

The entsize (8 in this example) is needed by objtool klp-diff for
extracting individual entries.

Clang assembler versions older than 20 silently ignore the above
construct and set entsize to 0, resulting in the following error:

  .discard.annotate_data: missing special section entsize or annotations

Add a klp-build check to prevent the use of Clang assembler versions
prior to 20.

Fixes: 24ebfcd6 ("livepatch/klp-build: Introduce klp-build script for generating livepatch modules")
Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/957fd52e375d0e2cfa3ac729160da995084a7f5e.1769562556.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

parent 78c268f3

scripts/livepatch/klp-build

+4 −0

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		@@ -249,6 +249,10 @@ validate_config() {
		[[ -v CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT ]] && \
		die "kernel option 'CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT' not supported"

		[[ -v CONFIG_AS_IS_LLVM ]] && \
		[[ "$CONFIG_AS_VERSION" -lt 200000 ]] && \
		die "Clang assembler version < 20 not supported"

		return 0
		}