linux/arch/csky
Nathan Chancellor 8678591b47
kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS
Commit 3e86e4d74c ("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 ddc6cbef3e ("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 d50f210913 ("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: 3e86e4d74c ("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>
2026-02-26 11:50:19 -07:00
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abiv1 treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant 2026-01-20 19:24:39 -08:00
abiv2 treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant 2026-01-20 19:24:39 -08:00
boot kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
configs netfs, fscache: Combine fscache with netfs 2023-12-24 15:08:46 +00:00
include csky 6.19 Release Notes 2025-12-10 12:17:29 +09:00
kernel kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS 2026-02-26 11:50:19 -07:00
lib csky: delay: Add function alignment 2022-12-29 23:47:52 -05:00
mm csky: fix csky_cmpxchg_fixup not working 2025-10-19 02:42:40 -04:00
Kbuild csky: Move $(core-y) into arch/csky/Kbuild 2022-05-13 15:09:28 +08:00
Kconfig tracing: Remove redundant config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 2025-07-22 20:15:56 -04:00
Kconfig.debug treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Kconfig.platforms csky/Kconfig: Add Kconfig.platforms to support some drivers 2020-02-21 15:43:24 +08:00
Makefile kbuild: remove head-y syntax 2022-10-02 18:06:03 +09:00