objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build

jpoimboe · Ingo Molnar · commit 3b27a0c85d70 · 2016-03-05T09:20:44.000+01:00
With CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION enabled, if the host system doesn't have a development version of libelf installed, the build fails with errors like: elf.h:22:18: fatal error: gelf.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. Instead of failing to build, instead just print a warning and disable stack validation. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux@roeck-us.net Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c27fe00face60f42e888ddb3142c97e45223165.1457026550.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -995,8 +995,19 @@ prepare0: archprepare FORCE
 # All the preparing..
 prepare: prepare0 prepare-objtool
 
+ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
+  has_libelf := $(shell echo "int main() {}" | $(HOSTCC) -xc -o /dev/null -lelf - &> /dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0)
+  ifeq ($(has_libelf),1)
+    objtool_target := tools/objtool FORCE
+  else
+    $(warning "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION, please install libelf-dev or elfutils-libelf-devel")
+    SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION := 1
+    export SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION
+  endif
+endif
+
 PHONY += prepare-objtool
-prepare-objtool: $(if $(CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION), tools/objtool FORCE)
+prepare-objtool: $(objtool_target)
 
 # Generate some files
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ cmd_record_mcount =						\
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
+ifneq ($(SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION),1)
 
 __objtool_obj := $(objtree)/tools/objtool/objtool
 
@@ -260,6 +261,7 @@ objtool_obj = $(if $(patsubst y%,, \
 	$(OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_$(basetarget).o)$(OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD)n), \
 	$(__objtool_obj))
 
+endif # SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION
 endif # CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
 
 define rule_cc_o_c
