The following commit has been merged into the objtool/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     0a7823d1d70dd17fbf0e9771d9afd5067a69ded0
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/0a7823d1d70dd17fbf0e9771d9afd5067a69ded0
Author:        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
AuthorDate:    Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:20:42 -07:00
Committer:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
CommitterDate: Mon, 04 May 2026 21:15:59 -07:00

objtool/klp: Don't correlate __initstub__ symbols

With LTO, the initcall infrastructure generates __initstub__kmod_*
wrapper functions in .init.text.  These are the LTO equivalent of
__initcall__kmod_* data pointers, which are already excluded from
correlation.

These are __init functions whose memory is freed after boot, so there's
no reason to include or reference them in a livepatch module.

Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
---
 tools/objtool/klp-diff.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c
index 27ebe1b..4f66811 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c
@@ -370,6 +370,12 @@ static bool is_abs_sym(struct symbol *sym)
 	return sym->sym.st_shndx == SHN_ABS && !is_file_sym(sym);
 }
 
+static bool is_initcall_sym(struct symbol *sym)
+{
+	return strstarts(sym->name, "__initcall__") ||
+	       strstarts(sym->name, "__initstub__");
+}
+
 /*
  * These symbols should never be correlated, so their local patched versions
  * are used instead of linking to the originals.
@@ -384,10 +390,10 @@ static bool dont_correlate(struct symbol *sym)
 	       is_uncorrelated_static_local(sym) ||
 	       is_clang_tmp_label(sym) ||
 	       is_string_sec(sym->sec) ||
+	       is_initcall_sym(sym) ||
 	       is_addressable_sym(sym) ||
 	       is_special_section(sym->sec) ||
-	       is_special_section_aux(sym->sec) ||
-	       strstarts(sym->name, "__initcall__");
+	       is_special_section_aux(sym->sec);
 }
 
 struct process_demangled_name_data {