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| author | Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> | 2026-02-25 15:02:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> | 2026-03-12 07:09:44 -0400 |
| commit | 861aa1be41bc1ba3e13ef6a6f0b58a0626012fc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 059784574be7c3a738c199f2340c3ef643ba8e44 /include | |
| parent | bc2110c10128176c17b00669b8761332ce9ae1b1 (diff) | |
kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS
commit 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 upstream.
Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].
Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.
Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index e04d56a5332e..6640e06ef2f1 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -832,12 +832,14 @@ defined(CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG) || defined(CONFIG_PROPELLER_CLANG) /* Required sections not related to debugging. */ #define ELF_DETAILS \ - .modinfo : { *(.modinfo) . = ALIGN(8); } \ .comment 0 : { *(.comment) } \ .symtab 0 : { *(.symtab) } \ .strtab 0 : { *(.strtab) } \ .shstrtab 0 : { *(.shstrtab) } +#define MODINFO \ + .modinfo : { *(.modinfo) . = ALIGN(8); } + #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG #define BUG_TABLE \ . = ALIGN(8); \ |