select ARCH_HAS_FILTER_PGPROT
        select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
        select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
-       select ARCH_HAS_KCOV                    if X86_64
+       select ARCH_HAS_KCOV                    if X86_64 && STACK_VALIDATION
        select ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
        select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
        select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
 
 
 unsigned long arch_dest_rela_offset(int addend);
 
+const char *arch_nop_insn(int len);
+
 #endif /* _ARCH_H */
 
        state->regs[16].base = CFI_CFA;
        state->regs[16].offset = -8;
 }
+
+const char *arch_nop_insn(int len)
+{
+       static const char nops[5][5] = {
+               /* 1 */ { 0x90 },
+               /* 2 */ { 0x66, 0x90 },
+               /* 3 */ { 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x00 },
+               /* 4 */ { 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x40, 0x00 },
+               /* 5 */ { 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x44, 0x00, 0x00 },
+       };
+
+       if (len < 1 || len > 5) {
+               WARN("invalid NOP size: %d\n", len);
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
+       return nops[len-1];
+}
 
--- /dev/null
+#ifndef _OBJTOOL_ARCH_ELF
+#define _OBJTOOL_ARCH_ELF
+
+#define R_NONE R_X86_64_NONE
+
+#endif /* _OBJTOOL_ARCH_ELF */
 
 #include "check.h"
 #include "special.h"
 #include "warn.h"
+#include "arch_elf.h"
 
 #include <linux/hashtable.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
                } else
                        insn->call_dest = rela->sym;
 
+               /*
+                * Many compilers cannot disable KCOV with a function attribute
+                * so they need a little help, NOP out any KCOV calls from noinstr
+                * text.
+                */
+               if (insn->sec->noinstr &&
+                   !strncmp(insn->call_dest->name, "__sanitizer_cov_", 16)) {
+                       if (rela) {
+                               rela->type = R_NONE;
+                               elf_write_rela(file->elf, rela);
+                       }
+
+                       elf_write_insn(file->elf, insn->sec,
+                                      insn->offset, insn->len,
+                                      arch_nop_insn(insn->len));
+                       insn->type = INSN_NOP;
+               }
+
                /*
                 * Whatever stack impact regular CALLs have, should be undone
                 * by the RETURN of the called function.