kernel/linux.git/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux, branch v6.19.11

kbuild: Fix permissions of modules.builtin.modinfo

2026-01-28T10:51:25+00:00

Currently, modules.builtin.modinfo is created with executable permissions (0755). This is because after commit 39cfd5b12160 ("kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped"), modules.builtin.modinfo is extracted from vmlinux.unstripped using objcopy. When extracting sections, objcopy inherits attributes from the source ELF file. Since modules.builtin.modinfo is a data file and not an executable, it should have regular file permissions (0644). The executable bit can trigger warnings in Debian's Lintian tool. Explicitly remove the executable bit after generation. Fixes: 39cfd5b12160 ("kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped") Signed-off-by: Ethan Zuo Link: https://patch.msgid.link/SY0P300MB0609F6916B24ADF65502940B9C91A@SY0P300MB0609.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier

kbuild: Strip trailing padding bytes from modules.builtin.modinfo

2025-11-06T16:50:23+00:00

After commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat"), running modules_install with certain versions of kmod (such as 29.1 in Ubuntu Jammy) in certain configurations may fail with: depmod: ERROR: kmod_builtin_iter_next: unexpected string without modname prefix The additional padding bytes to ensure .modinfo is aligned within vmlinux.unstripped are unexpected by kmod, as this section has always just been null-terminated strings. Strip the trailing padding bytes from modules.builtin.modinfo after it has been extracted from vmlinux.unstripped to restore the format that kmod expects while keeping .modinfo aligned within vmlinux.unstripped to avoid regressing the Authenticode calculation fix for EDK2. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat") Reported-by: Omar Sandoval Reported-by: Samir M Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/7fef7507-ad64-4e51-9bb8-c9fb6532e51e@linux.ibm.com/ Tested-by: Omar Sandoval Tested-by: Samir M Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105-kbuild-fix-builtin-modinfo-for-kmod-v1-1-b419d8ad4606@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kbuild: Use '--strip-unneeded-symbol' for removing module device table symbols

2025-10-10T21:50:35+00:00

After commit 5ab23c7923a1 ("modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules"), relocatable RISC-V kernels with CONFIG_KASAN=y start failing when attempting to strip the module device table symbols: riscv64-linux-objcopy: not stripping symbol `__mod_device_table__kmod_irq_starfive_jh8100_intc__of__starfive_intc_irqchip_match_table' because it is named in a relocation make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:97: vmlinux] Error 1 The relocation appears to come from .LASANLOC5 in .data.rel.local: $ llvm-objdump --disassemble-symbols=.LASANLOC5 --disassemble-all -r drivers/irqchip/irq-starfive-jh8100-intc.o drivers/irqchip/irq-starfive-jh8100-intc.o: file format elf64-littleriscv Disassembly of section .data.rel.local: 0000000000000180 <.LASANLOC5>: ... 1d0: 0000 unimp 00000000000001d0: R_RISCV_64 __mod_device_table__kmod_irq_starfive_jh8100_intc__of__starfive_intc_irqchip_match_table ... This section appears to come from GCC for including additional information about global variables that may be protected by KASAN. There appears to be no way to opt out of the generation of these symbols through either a flag or attribute. Attempting to remove '.LASANLOC*' with '--strip-symbol' results in the same error as above because these symbols may refer to (thus have relocation between) each other. Avoid this build breakage by switching to '--strip-unneeded-symbol' for removing __mod_device_table__ symbols, as it will only remove the symbol when there is no relocation pointing to it. While this may result in a little more bloat in the symbol table in certain configurations, it is not as bad as outright build failures. Fixes: 5ab23c7923a1 ("modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules") Reported-by: Charles Mirabile Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251007011637.2512413-1-cmirabil@redhat.com/ Suggested-by: Alexey Gladkov Tested-by: Nicolas Schier Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux

2025-10-10T17:22:08+00:00

Prior to binutils commit c12d9fa2afe ("Support objcopy --remove-section=.relaFOO") [1] in 2.32, stripping relocation sections required the trailing period (i.e., '.rel.*') to work properly. After commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped"), there is an error with binutils 2.31.1 or earlier because these sections are not properly removed: s390-linux-objcopy: st6tO8Ev: symbol `.modinfo' required but not present s390-linux-objcopy:st6tO8Ev: no symbols Add the old pattern to resolve this issue (along with a comment to allow cleaning this when binutils 2.32 or newer is the minimum supported version). While the aforementioned kbuild change exposes this, the pattern was originally changed by commit 71d815bf5dfd ("kbuild: Strip runtime const RELA sections correctly"), where it would still be incorrect with binutils older than 2.32. Fixes: 71d815bf5dfd ("kbuild: Strip runtime const RELA sections correctly") Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c12d9fa2afe7abcbe407a00e15719e1a1350c2a7 [1] Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CA+G9fYvVktRhFtZXdNgVOL8j+ArsJDpvMLgCitaQvQmCx=hwOQ@mail.gmail.com/ Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov Acked-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008-kbuild-fix-modinfo-regressions-v1-2-9fc776c5887c@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kbuild: Restore pattern to avoid stripping .rela.dyn from vmlinux

2025-10-10T17:22:07+00:00

Commit 0ce5139fd96e ("kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped") removed the pattern to avoid stripping .rela.dyn sections added by commit e9d86b8e17e7 ("scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn section"). Restore it so that .rela.dyn sections remain in the final vmlinux. Fixes: 0ce5139fd96e ("kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped") Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov Acked-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008-kbuild-fix-modinfo-regressions-v1-1-9fc776c5887c@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o

2025-09-24T16:10:45+00:00

Since .vmlinux.export.c is used to add generated by modpost modaliases for builtin modules the .vmlinux.export.o is no longer optional and should always be created. The generation of this file is not dependent on CONFIG_MODULES. Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0e63a9c7741fe8217e4fd7c60afcf057ffa2ef5a.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules

2025-09-24T16:10:45+00:00

For some modules, modalias is generated using the modpost utility and the section is added to the module file. When a module is added inside vmlinux, modpost does not generate modalias for such modules and the information is lost. As a result kmod (which uses modules.builtin.modinfo in userspace) cannot determine that modalias is handled by a builtin kernel module. $ cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/modalias pci:v00008086d0000A36Dsv00001043sd00008694bc0Csc03i30 $ modinfo xhci_pci name: xhci_pci filename: (builtin) license: GPL file: drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci description: xHCI PCI Host Controller Driver Missing modalias "pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc0Csc03i30*" which will be generated by modpost if the module is built separately. To fix this it is necessary to generate the same modalias for vmlinux as for the individual modules. Fortunately '.vmlinux.export.o' is already generated from which '.modinfo' can be extracted in the same way as for vmlinux.o. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/28d4da3b0e3fc8474142746bcf469e03752c3208.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped

2025-09-24T16:10:44+00:00

Currently, we assume all the data for modules.builtin.modinfo are available in vmlinux.o. This makes it impossible for modpost, which is invoked after vmlinux.o, to add additional module info. This commit moves the modules.builtin.modinfo rule after modpost. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cdb3e5b9a739666b755cd0097dc34ab69c350e51.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped

2025-09-24T16:10:44+00:00

Keep the .modinfo section during linking, but strip it from the final vmlinux. Adjust scripts/mksysmap to exclude modinfo symbols from kallsyms. This change will allow the next commit to extract the .modinfo section from the vmlinux.unstripped intermediate. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aaf67c07447215463300fccaa758904bac42f992.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped

2025-09-24T16:10:44+00:00

Generate the intermediate vmlinux.unstripped regardless of CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS. If CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS is unset, vmlinux.unstripped and vmlinux are identiacal. This simplifies the build rule, and allows to strip more sections by adding them to remove-section-y. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a48ca543fa2305bd17324f41606dcaed9b19f2d4.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor