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Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/Makefile.vmlinux')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/Makefile.vmlinux | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux index ced4379550d7..cd788cac9d91 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux +++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux @@ -102,11 +102,24 @@ vmlinux: vmlinux.unstripped FORCE # modules.builtin.modinfo # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +# .modinfo in vmlinux.unstripped is aligned to 8 bytes for compatibility with +# tools that expect vmlinux to have sufficiently aligned sections but the +# additional bytes used for padding .modinfo to satisfy this requirement break +# certain versions of kmod with +# +# depmod: ERROR: kmod_builtin_iter_next: unexpected string without modname prefix +# +# Strip the trailing padding bytes after extracting .modinfo to comply with +# what kmod expects to parse. +quiet_cmd_modules_builtin_modinfo = GEN $@ + cmd_modules_builtin_modinfo = $(cmd_objcopy); \ + sed -i 's/\x00\+$$/\x00/g' $@ + OBJCOPYFLAGS_modules.builtin.modinfo := -j .modinfo -O binary targets += modules.builtin.modinfo modules.builtin.modinfo: vmlinux.unstripped FORCE - $(call if_changed,objcopy) + $(call if_changed,modules_builtin_modinfo) # modules.builtin # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |