Re: Segfault in pahole 1.18 when building kernel 5.9.1 for arm64

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Oct 21 2020 - 07:29:16 EST


Em Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 08:22:40AM +0200, Jiri Slaby escreveu:
> On 20. 10. 20, 14:20, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > Yeah, I observe the very same. I reported it at:
> > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177921

> > Would it be possible to try with
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/commit/?h=tmp.libbtf_encoder
> > ?

> Yes, that branch fixes the crashes and the kernel build finishes. The
> zero-sized symbol error remains.

> So what should distributions do now -- should we switch to a pahole snapshot
> for a while?

That would do the trick, I just completed my testing and pushed to the
master branch on kernel.org and github, tests detailed at:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/commit/?id=040fd7f585c9b9fcf4475d294b3f5ddf78405297

There are some minor bug reports I want to address but my ETA right now
is the end of this week to release v1.19.

- Arnaldo