From 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Chancellor Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:02:51 -0700 Subject: kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS 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 Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1] Tested-by: Ed W # x86_64 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index eeb070f330bd..1e1580febe4b 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -848,12 +848,14 @@ /* 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); \ -- cgit v1.2.3