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

After commit 5ab23c7923a1 ("modpost: Create modalias for builtin
modules"), relocatable RISC-V kernels with CONFIG_KASA

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

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 <cmirabil@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251007011637.2512413-1-cmirabil@redhat.com/
Suggested-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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Merge patch series "kbuild: Fixes for fallout from recent modules.builtin.modinfo series"

This is a series to address some problems that were exposed by the
recent modules.builtin.modinfo series tha

Merge patch series "kbuild: Fixes for fallout from recent modules.builtin.modinfo series"

This is a series to address some problems that were exposed by the
recent modules.builtin.modinfo series that landed in commit c7d3dd9163e6
("Merge patch series "Add generated modalias to
modules.builtin.modinfo"").

The third patch is not directly related to the aforementioned series, as
the warning it fixes happens prior to the series but commit 8d18ef04f940
("s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections") from the series creates
conflicts in this area, so I included it here.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008-kbuild-fix-modinfo-regressions-v1-0-9fc776c5887c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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

Prior to binutils commit c12d9fa2afe ("Support objcopy
--remove-section=.relaFOO") [1] in 2.32, stripping relocation sections
required the trailing per

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

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 <lkft@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CA+G9fYvVktRhFtZXdNgVOL8j+ArsJDpvMLgCitaQvQmCx=hwOQ@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008-kbuild-fix-modinfo-regressions-v1-2-9fc776c5887c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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

Commit 0ce5139fd96e ("kbuild: always create intermediate
vmlinux.unstripped") removed the pattern to avoid stripping .rela.dyn
secti

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

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 <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008-kbuild-fix-modinfo-regressions-v1-1-9fc776c5887c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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Merge tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux

Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

- Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from

Merge tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux

Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

- Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
a builtin module

- Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

- Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors

- Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling

- Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
W=e

- Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
(userprogs)

- Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
(hostprogs)

- Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
btrfs and XFS

- Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files

* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
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Merge patch series "Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo"

Alexey Gladkov says:

The modules.builtin.modinfo file is used by userspace (kmod to be specific) to
get information about buil

Merge patch series "Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo"

Alexey Gladkov says:

The modules.builtin.modinfo file is used by userspace (kmod to be specific) to
get information about builtin modules. Among other information about the module,
information about module aliases is stored. This is very important to determine
that a particular modalias will be handled by a module that is inside the
kernel.

There are several mechanisms for creating modalias for modules:

The first is to explicitly specify the MODULE_ALIAS of the macro. In this case,
the aliases go into the '.modinfo' section of the module if it is compiled
separately or into vmlinux.o if it is builtin into the kernel.

The second is the use of MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE followed by the use of the
modpost utility. In this case, vmlinux.o no longer has this information and
does not get it into modules.builtin.modinfo.

For example:

$ modinfo pci:v00008086d0000A36Dsv00001043sd00008694bc0Csc03i30
modinfo: ERROR: Module pci:v00008086d0000A36Dsv00001043sd00008694bc0Csc03i30 not found.

$ modinfo xhci_pci
name: xhci_pci
filename: (builtin)
license: GPL
file: drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci
description: xHCI PCI Host Controller Driver

The builtin module is missing alias "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 add the generated by modpost modalias to
modules.builtin.modinfo. Fortunately modpost already generates .vmlinux.export.c
for exported symbols. It is possible to add `.modinfo` for builtin modules and
modify the build system so that `.modinfo` section is extracted from the
intermediate vmlinux after modpost is executed.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cover.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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

Since .vmlinux.export.c is used to add generated by modpost modaliases
for builtin modules the .vmlinux.export.o is no longer opt

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

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 <legion@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0e63a9c7741fe8217e4fd7c60afcf057ffa2ef5a.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules

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, mo

modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules

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 <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/28d4da3b0e3fc8474142746bcf469e03752c3208.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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

Currently, we assume all the data for modules.builtin.modinfo are
available in vmlinux.o.

This makes it impossible for modpost, which

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

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 <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cdb3e5b9a739666b755cd0097dc34ab69c350e51.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped

Keep the .modinfo section during linking, but strip it from the final
vmlinux.

Adjust scripts/mksysmap to exclude modinfo symbols from kallsyms.

kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped

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 <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aaf67c07447215463300fccaa758904bac42f992.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped

Generate the intermediate vmlinux.unstripped regardless of
CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS.

If CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS is unset, vmli

kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped

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 <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a48ca543fa2305bd17324f41606dcaed9b19f2d4.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.17 merge window.

Merge tag 'ib-mfd-gpio-input-pwm-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd into next

Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve
conflicts for the mer

Merge tag 'ib-mfd-gpio-input-pwm-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd into next

Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve
conflicts for the merge window pull request.

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Back-merge drm-next to (indirectly) get arm-smmu updates for making
stall-on-fault more reliable.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Back-merge drm-next to (indirectly) get arm-smmu updates for making
stall-on-fault more reliable.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to forward to v6.16-rc1

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging to bring in 6.16

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync to v6.16-rc1, among other things to get the fixed size GENMASK_U*()
and BIT_U*() macros.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in a67221b5eb8d ("drm/i915/dp: Return min bpc supported by source instead of 0")
in order to fix build breakage on GCC 9.4.0 (from Ubuntu 20.04

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in a67221b5eb8d ("drm/i915/dp: Return min bpc supported by source instead of 0")
in order to fix build breakage on GCC 9.4.0 (from Ubuntu 20.04).

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Backmerge to sync with v6.15-rc, xe, and specifically async flip changes
in drm-misc.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge tag 'riscv-mw2-6.16-rc1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/alexghiti/linux into for-next

riscv patches for 6.16-rc1, part 2

* Performance improvements
- Add support for

Merge tag 'riscv-mw2-6.16-rc1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/alexghiti/linux into for-next

riscv patches for 6.16-rc1, part 2

* Performance improvements
- Add support for vdso getrandom
- Implement raid6 calculations using vectors
- Introduce svinval tlb invalidation

* Cleanup
- A bunch of deduplication of the macros we use for manipulating instructions

* Misc
- Introduce a kunit test for kprobes
- Add support for mseal as riscv fits the requirements (thanks to Lorenzo for making sure of that :))

[Palmer: There was a rebase between part 1 and part 2, so I've had to do
some more git surgery here... at least two rounds of surgery...]

* alex-pr-2: (866 commits)
RISC-V: vDSO: Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation
riscv: enable mseal sysmap for RV64
raid6: Add RISC-V SIMD syndrome and recovery calculations
riscv: mm: Add support for Svinval extension
riscv: Add kprobes KUnit test
riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_ITYPE_IMM
riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_UTYPE_IMM
riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_RD_REG
riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RVC_EXTRACT_BTYPE_IMM
riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RVC_EXTRACT_C2_RS1_REG
riscv: kproves: Remove duplication of RVC_EXTRACT_JTYPE_IMM
riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_BTYPE_IMM
riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_RS1_REG
riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_JTYPE_IMM
riscv: kprobes: Move branch_funct3 to insn.h
riscv: kprobes: Move branch_rs2_idx to insn.h
Linux 6.15-rc6
Input: xpad - fix xpad_device sorting
Input: xpad - add support for several more controllers
Input: xpad - fix Share button on Xbox One controllers
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Merge 6.15-rc6 into staging-next

We need the staging changes in here as well

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Merge 6.15-rc6 into usb-next

We need the USB fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Merge 6.15-rc6 into char-misc-next

We need the iio/hyperv fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf-tools-next

To pick up changes for other tools/ libraries used by perf and for
header synchronization with the kernel sources originals.

Sign

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf-tools-next

To pick up changes for other tools/ libraries used by perf and for
header synchronization with the kernel sources originals.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.16 merge window.