Merge tag 'objtool-core-2026-10-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add unit test suite for objtool klp functionality and
   known failure modes (by Song Liu and Puranjay Mohan,
   with fixes by Joe Lawrence)

* tag 'objtool-core-2026-10-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
  objtool/klp: Add test for ThinLTO symbols sharing a demangled name
  objtool/klp: Add test for Clang switch jump tables
  objtool/klp: Add test for UBSAN metadata in an unchanged function
  objtool/klp: Add test for absolute and __ADDRESSABLE symbols
  objtool/klp: Add test for a patch which strips a data annotation
  objtool/klp: Add test for the alignment of cloned data sections
  objtool/klp: Add test for alternative replacement code in checksums
  objtool/klp: Add test for instruction operand checksums
  objtool/klp: Add test for a static call introduced by the patch
  objtool/klp: Add test for tracepoint and pr_debug static branch keys
  objtool/klp: Add test for a static branch introduced by the patch
  objtool/klp: Add test for symbols with no checksum entry of their own
  objtool/klp: Add test for data object checksums
  objtool/klp: Test text annotations on alternative replacements
  objtool/klp: Test a hand-built livepatch module's static call keys
  objtool/klp: Test rejection of a file-local static branch key
  objtool/klp: Add test for symbols whose linkage the patch changes
  objtool/klp: Add test for kCFI prefix symbols and traps
  objtool/klp: Add test for __bug_table, __ex_table and __mcount_loc extraction
  objtool/klp: Add test for static locals which must not be correlated
  ...

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diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-thinlto-local.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-thinlto-local.sh
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index 000000000000..a266263676ed
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+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-thinlto-local.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# Correlating ThinLTO-promoted locals requires demangling the .llvm.<hash>
+# suffix, and the resulting klp relocation must name the original symbol: that
+# is the one in the running kernel's kallsyms.
+
+. "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh"
+
+setup
+clang_only "ThinLTO requires clang"
+
+find_thinlto_toolchain ||
+	probe_skip "no matching clang/lld pair for a ThinLTO link; set THIN_LD to one"
+
+build_thinlto()		# $1 output object, $2 extra flags
+{
+	$THIN_CC -flto=thin -O2 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections $2 \
+		-c "$FIXTURES_DIR/thinlto_local.c" -o "$workdir/tu_a.o" 2>/dev/null || return 1
+	$THIN_CC -flto=thin -O2 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections $2 -DTU_B \
+		-c "$FIXTURES_DIR/thinlto_local.c" -o "$workdir/tu_b.o" 2>/dev/null || return 1
+	"$THIN_LD" -r "$workdir/tu_a.o" "$workdir/tu_b.o" -o "$1" 2>/dev/null || return 1
+}
+
+build_thinlto "$workdir/orig.o" "" ||
+	probe_skip "ThinLTO build failed ($THIN_CC, $THIN_LD)"
+build_thinlto "$workdir/patched.o" -DPATCHED ||
+	probe_skip "ThinLTO build failed ($THIN_CC, $THIN_LD)"
+
+orig_sym="$(in_symbols orig.o    | grep -o 'counter\.llvm\.[0-9]*' | head -1)"
+new_sym="$( in_symbols patched.o | grep -o 'counter\.llvm\.[0-9]*' | head -1)"
+
+[ -n "$orig_sym" ] && [ -n "$new_sym" ] ||
+	probe_skip "$THIN_CC did not promote the local symbol"
+
+# Equal hashes would make plain name matching work, testing nothing.
+[ "$orig_sym" != "$new_sym" ] ||
+	probe_skip "$THIN_CC gave the same ThinLTO hash for both builds"
+
+run_diff
+assert_patched target
+
+out_symbols | grep -q "\.klp\.sym\.vmlinux\.$orig_sym," ||
+	fail "expected a klp relocation naming $orig_sym"
+out_symbols | grep -q "\.klp\.sym\.vmlinux\.$new_sym," &&
+	fail "klp relocation names $new_sym, which the running kernel does not have"
+
+pass "ThinLTO-mangled local correlated across differing hashes ($THIN_CC, $THIN_LD)"