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Commit e31694e0 authored by Josh Poimboeuf's avatar Josh Poimboeuf Committed by Ingo Molnar
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objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable


When objtool creates the .altinstructions section, it sets the SHF_WRITE
flag to make the section writable -- unless the section had already been
previously created by the kernel.  The mismatch between kernel-created
and objtool-created section flags can cause failures with external
tooling (kpatch-build).  And the section doesn't need to be writable
anyway.

Make the section flags consistent with the kernel's.

Fixes: 9bc0bb50 ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls")
Reported-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6c284ae89717889ea136f9f0064d914cd8329d31.1624462939.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
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