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+#! /bin/bash
+# (c) 2015, Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
+
+obj=$1
+
+file ${obj} | grep -q ELF || (echo "${obj} is not and ELF file." 1>&2 ; exit 0)
+
+# Bail out early if there isn't an __ex_table section in this object file.
+objdump -hj __ex_table ${obj} 2> /dev/null > /dev/null
+[ $? -ne 0 ] && exit 0
+
+white_list=.text,.fixup
+
+suspicious_relocs=$(objdump -rj __ex_table ${obj}  | tail -n +6 |
+			grep -v $(eval echo -e{${white_list}}) | awk '{print $3}')
+
+# No suspicious relocs in __ex_table, jobs a good'un
+[ -z "${suspicious_relocs}" ] && exit 0
+
+
+# After this point, something is seriously wrong since we just found out we
+# have some relocations in __ex_table which point to sections which aren't
+# white listed.  If you're adding a new section in the Linux kernel, and
+# you're expecting this section to contain code which can fault (i.e. the
+# __ex_table relocation to your new section is expected), simply add your
+# new section to the white_list variable above.  If not, you're probably
+# doing something wrong and the rest of this code is just trying to print
+# you more information about it.
+
+function find_section_offset_from_symbol()
+{
+    eval $(objdump -t ${obj} | grep ${1} | sed 's/\([0-9a-f]\+\) .\{7\} \([^ \t]\+\).*/section="\2"; section_offset="0x\1" /')
+
+    # addr2line takes addresses in hexadecimal...
+    section_offset=$(printf "0x%016x" $(( ${section_offset} + $2 )) )
+}
+
+function find_symbol_and_offset_from_reloc()
+{
+    # Extract symbol and offset from the objdump output
+    eval $(echo $reloc | sed 's/\([^+]\+\)+\?\(0x[0-9a-f]\+\)\?/symbol="\1"; symbol_offset="\2"/')
+
+    # When the relocation points to the begining of a symbol or section, it
+    # won't print the offset since it is zero.
+    if [ -z "${symbol_offset}" ]; then
+	symbol_offset=0x0
+    fi
+}
+
+function find_alt_replacement_target()
+{
+    # The target of the .altinstr_replacement is the relocation just before
+    # the .altinstr_replacement one.
+    eval $(objdump -rj .altinstructions ${obj} | grep -B1 "${section}+${section_offset}" | head -n1 | awk '{print $3}' |
+	   sed 's/\([^+]\+\)+\(0x[0-9a-f]\+\)/alt_target_section="\1"; alt_target_offset="\2"/')
+}
+
+function handle_alt_replacement_reloc()
+{
+    # This will define alt_target_section and alt_target_section_offset
+    find_alt_replacement_target ${section} ${section_offset}
+
+    echo "Error: found a reference to .altinstr_replacement in __ex_table:"
+    addr2line -fip -j ${alt_target_section} -e ${obj} ${alt_target_offset} | awk '{print "\t" $0}'
+
+    error=true
+}
+
+function is_executable_section()
+{
+    objdump -hwj ${section} ${obj} | grep -q CODE
+    return $?
+}
+
+function handle_suspicious_generic_reloc()
+{
+    if is_executable_section ${section}; then
+	# We've got a relocation to a non white listed _executable_
+	# section, print a warning so the developper adds the section to
+	# the white list or fix his code.  We try to pretty-print the file
+	# and line number where that relocation was added.
+	echo "Warning: found a reference to section \"${section}\" in __ex_table:"
+	addr2line -fip -j ${section} -e ${obj} ${section_offset} | awk '{print "\t" $0}'
+    else
+	# Something is definitively wrong here since we've got a relocation
+	# to a non-executable section, there's no way this would ever be
+	# running in the kernel.
+	echo "Error: found a reference to non-executable section \"${section}\" in __ex_table at offset ${section_offset}"
+	error=true
+    fi
+}
+
+function handle_suspicious_reloc()
+{
+    case "${section}" in
+	".altinstr_replacement")
+	    handle_alt_replacement_reloc ${section} ${section_offset}
+	    ;;
+	*)
+	    handle_suspicious_generic_reloc ${section} ${section_offset}
+	    ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+function diagnose()
+{
+
+    for reloc in ${suspicious_relocs}; do
+	# Let's find out where the target of the relocation in __ex_table
+	# is, this will define ${symbol} and ${symbol_offset}
+	find_symbol_and_offset_from_reloc ${reloc}
+
+	# When there's a global symbol at the place of the relocation,
+	# objdump will use it instead of giving us a section+offset, so
+	# let's find out which section is this symbol in and the total
+	# offset withing that section.
+	find_section_offset_from_symbol ${symbol} ${symbol_offset}
+
+	# In this case objdump was presenting us with a reloc to a symbol
+	# rather than a section. Now that we've got the actual section,
+	# we can skip it if it's in the white_list.
+	if [ -z "$( echo $section | grep -v $(eval echo -e{${white_list}}))" ]; then
+	    continue;
+	fi
+
+	# Will either print a warning if the relocation happens to be in a
+	# section we do not know but has executable bit set, or error out.
+	handle_suspicious_reloc
+    done
+}
+
+function check_debug_info() {
+    objdump -hj .debug_info ${obj} 2> /dev/null > /dev/null ||
+	echo -e "${obj} does not contain debug information, the addr2line output will be limited.\n" \
+	     "Recompile ${obj} with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO to get a more useful output."
+}
+
+check_debug_info
+
+diagnose
+
+if [ "${error}" ]; then
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+exit 0