objtool: Do not retrieve data from empty sections
authorPetr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:15:05 +0000 (02:15 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:31:50 +0000 (11:31 +0200)
commitdf968c9329f6e5cf3596a0a54adb6f749747a746
tree6e7c2dde58d95c1effacb54ecfbaa72bf8843f2f
parent0998b7a0befdf6e734032895ee639a5e6f88cc3f
objtool: Do not retrieve data from empty sections

Binutils 2.29-9 in Debian return an error when elf_getdata is invoked
on empty section (.note.GNU-stack in all kernel files), causing
immediate failure of kernel build with:

  elf_getdata: can't manipulate null section

As nothing is done with sections that have zero size, just do not
retrieve their data at all.

Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2ce30a44349065b70d0f00e71e286dc0cbe745e6.1505459652.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
tools/objtool/elf.c