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+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# A patch may remove the last ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL in a translation unit while
+# leaving the special section it described in place.
+#
+# klp diff needs entry boundaries for a special section: either an entsize, or
+# annotations naming where each entry starts.  .static_call_sites has no
+# entsize, so the annotations are all there is -- and when the patched object
+# is the only side that lost them, the two sides no longer agree on how the
+# section divides up.
+#
+# The section must still be handled.  Dropping it would leave the patched
+# function's static call unregistered; misreading its boundaries would attach
+# the entry to the wrong code.  Either way nothing is reported at build time.
+#
+# Fixed by commit 3de711fba73a ("objtool/klp: Fix create_fake_symbols()
+# skipping entsize-based sections").
+#
+# Covers the same ground as corpus/x86_64/static-call-annotate-stripped in Joe
+# Lawrence's klp-build unit test corpus.
+
+. "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh"
+
+setup
+build_pair static_call.c -DNO_ANNOTATE
+
+# The premise: the original describes its entry, the patched one no longer
+# does, and both still have the section itself.
+has_input_section orig.o .discard.annotate_data ||
+	fail "fixture produced no annotation in the original"
+has_input_section patched.o .discard.annotate_data &&
+	fail "patched object still has the annotation; nothing was stripped"
+assert_input_section .static_call_sites
+
+run_diff
+
+assert_patched target
+assert_section .static_call_sites
+assert_reloc_sym .static_call_sites target
+
+pass "static call site kept when the patch strips its data annotation"