Patch "objtool: Warn on stripped section symbol" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

objtool: Warn on stripped section symbol

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
objtool_Warn_on_stripped_section_symbol.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

Subject: objtool: Warn on stripped section symbol
From: Josh Poimboeuf [email protected]
Date: Mon Jan 29 22:00:41 2018 -0600

From: Josh Poimboeuf [email protected]

commit 830c1e3d16b2c1733cd1ec9c8f4d47a398ae31bc

With the following fix:

2a0098d70640 ("objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker")

... a seg fault was avoided, but the original seg fault condition in objtool wasn't fixed. Replace the seg fault with an error message.

---
 tools/objtool/orc_gen.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ static int create_orc_entry(struct secti
 	struct orc_entry *orc;
 	struct rela *rela;
 
+	if (!insn_sec->sym) {
+		WARN("missing symbol for section %s", insn_sec->name);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	/* populate ORC data */
 	orc = (struct orc_entry *)u_sec->data->d_buf + idx;
 	memcpy(orc, o, sizeof(*orc));

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/objtool_Add_support_for_alternatives_at_the_end_of_a_section.patch queue-4.14/x86entry64_Remove_the_SYSCALL64_fast_path.patch queue-4.14/x86asm_Move_status_from_thread_struct_to_thread_info.patch queue-4.14/x86entry64_Push_extra_regs_right_away.patch queue-4.14/objtool_Warn_on_stripped_section_symbol.patch queue-4.14/objtool_Improve_retpoline_alternative_handling.patch