From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 03:31:20 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: objtool: Fix data alignment in elf_add_data()
X-Git-Tag: v7.0-rc4~9^2~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=356e4b2f5b80;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

objtool: Fix data alignment in elf_add_data()

Any data added to a section needs to be aligned in accordance with the
section's sh_addralign value.  Particularly strings added to a .str1.8
section.  Otherwise you may get some funky strings.

Fixes: dd590d4d57eb ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/d962fc0ca24fa0825cca8dad71932dccdd9312a9.1772681234.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index 2c02c7b49265..3da90686350d 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ void *elf_add_data(struct elf *elf, struct section *sec, const void *data, size_
 		memcpy(sec->data->d_buf, data, size);
 
 	sec->data->d_size = size;
-	sec->data->d_align = 1;
+	sec->data->d_align = sec->sh.sh_addralign;
 
 	offset = ALIGN(sec->sh.sh_size, sec->sh.sh_addralign);
 	sec->sh.sh_size = offset + size;