After switching to the kernel's default package scripts for our local
kernel RPM builds, we noticed that module BTF entries were missing:
$ ls /sys/kernel/btf/
vmlinux <<<< only vmlinux, no module BTF
Root cause: find-debuginfo.sh (from the debugedit package) prefers
eu-strip over strip when elfutils is installed, which is the common
case on RHEL 9. eu-strip removes non-allocated ELF sections, including
the .BTF section that contains BPF Type Format information for kernel
modules. Without .BTF, BPF tools (bpftool, bcc, bpftrace) cannot resolve
kernel types at runtime, and /sys/kernel/btf/<module> entries are not
created when modules are loaded.
Additionally, since commit 8646db238997 ("libbpf,bpf: Share BTF
relocate-related code with kernel"), modules contain a .BTF.base section
that maps distilled type IDs to vmlinux types. If .BTF.base is stripped,
btf_parse_module() falls back to vmlinux BTF directly, causing type ID
mismatches and rejecting the module's BTF entirely.
Fix by passing --keep-section .BTF and --keep-section .BTF.base via
_find_debuginfo_opts, which adds -K .BTF and -K .BTF.base to the
eu-strip/strip command, preserving both sections while allowing normal
debuginfo extraction to proceed.
After this change, all module BTF files are properly generated:
$ ls /sys/kernel/btf/
aesni_intel drm i2c_i801 mfd_core
ahci drm_client_lib i2c_mux net_failover
backlight drm_kms_helper i2c_smbus pcspkr
ccp drm_shmem_helper input_leds qemu_fw_cfg
dm_log failover intel_rapl_common sch_fq_codel
dm_mirror fat intel_rapl_msr serio_raw
dm_mod fuse irqbypass sunrpc
dm_region_hash gf128mul iTCO_wdt vfat
virtio_balloon virtio_console virtio_dma_buf virtio_gpu
virtio_net virtio_rng virtio_blk vmlinux
xfs
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260728024950.44946-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Pull Kbuild / Kconfig updates from Nathan Chancellor:
"Kbuild:
- Remove broken module linking exclusion for BTF
- Add documentation around how offset header files work
- Include unstripped vDSO libraries in pacman packages
- Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1 and
clean up unnecessary workarounds
- Use a context manager in run-clang-tools
- Add dist macro value if present to release tag for RPM packages
- Detect and report truncated buf_printf() output in modpost
- Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section whitelist in modpost
- Support Clang's distributed ThinLTO mode
- Remove architecture specific configurations for AutoFDO and
Propeller to ease individual architecture maintenance
Kconfig:
- Add kconfig-sym-check target to look for dangling Kconfig symbol
references and invalid tristate literal values
- Harden against potential NULL pointer dereference
- Fix typo in Kconfig test comment"
* tag 'kbuild-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (31 commits)
kconfig: tests: fix typo in comment
kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for Propeller
kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for AutoFDO
modpost: Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section_white_list
kconfig: add kconfig-sym-check static checker
kbuild: Remove unnecessary 'T' modifier in cmd_ar_builtin_fixup
kbuild: distributed build support for Clang ThinLTO
kbuild: move vmlinux.a build rule to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_a
scripts: modpost: detect and report truncated buf_printf() output
kbuild: rpm-pkg: append %{?dist} macro to Release tag
run-clang-tools: run multiprocessing.Pool as context manager
compiler-clang.h: Drop explicit version number from "all" diagnostic macro
compiler-clang.h: Remove __cleanup -Wunused-variable workaround
kbuild: Remove check for broken scoping with clang < 17 in CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
x86/entry/vdso32: Remove conditional omission of '.cfi_offset eflags'
x86/module: Revert "Deal with GOT based stack cookie load on Clang < 17"
x86/build: Drop unnecessary '-ffreestanding' addition to KBUILD_CFLAGS
scripts/Makefile.warn: Drop -Wformat handling for clang < 16
riscv: Drop tautological condition from TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC
riscv: Remove tautological condition from selection of ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI
...
Add support for the %{?dist} macro in the kernel.spec file. This enables
building and releasing kernel RPMs with a custom distribution suffix
(e.g., via rpmbuild's --define option) to better match production
environment tracking.
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526062732.84006-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
The package versioning scheme does not enable smooth upgrades from "rc"
releases to the corresponding stable releases (e.g. 7.0.0-rc7 -> 7.0.0)
because pacman considers that a downgrade due to the underscore in
pkgver (e.g. 7.0.0_rc7), see e.g. vercmp(8) for an explanation of the
package version comparison used by pacman. Package versions which are
derived from said releases (e.g. built from git revisions) are
similarly affected. Fix this by modifying pkgver in order to remove the
hyphen from kernel versions containing "-rcN", where N is a
non-negative integer.
Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Jägersküpper <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515215913.92481-1-viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de
Fixes: c8578539deba ("kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
The unstripped vDSO files are useful for debugging. They are provided in the upstream 'linux-headers' package. Also package them as part of 'make pacman-pkg'. Make them part of the '-debug' package, as they fit there best. This differs from the upstream package as that has no '-debug' variant. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318-kbuild-pacman-vdso-install-v1-1-48ceb31c0e80@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Commit e2c318225ac1 ("kbuild: deb-pkg: add
pkg.linux-upstream.nokernelheaders build profile") changed how
install-extmod-build gets called, making it always rebuild the host
programs below scripts/ if HOSTCC wasn't specified with its full triplet
on the make command line. That is, apparently, needed to fix up commit
f1d87664b82a ("kbuild: cross-compile linux-headers package when
possible") for cross-compiles. However, in the much more common case of
non-cross-compile builds this will lead to unnecessary rebuilding of
host tools including gcc plugins. This, in turn, will lead to a full
kernel rebuild on the next 'make bindeb-pkg' which is unfortunate.
Avoid that by only triggering the rebuild of host tools for actual
cross-compile builds.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Fixes: e2c318225ac1 ("kbuild: deb-pkg: add pkg.linux-upstream.nokernelheaders build profile")
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402145116.1010901-1-minipli@grsecurity.net
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
When CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES is enabled and vmlinux is available, Makefile.modfinal and gen-btf.sh will try to use resolve_btfids on the module .ko. install-extmod-build currently does not package resolve_btfids, so that step fails. Package resolve_btfids if it may be used. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226-kbuild-resolve_btfids-v1-1-2bf38b93dfe7@linutronix.de [nathan: Small commit message tweaks] Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Stefano reports that after commit 62089b804895 ("kbuild: rpm-pkg:
Generate debuginfo package manually"), building with an rpm package
using rpm 4.20.0 fails with:
RPM build errors:
Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': #�) = 0x0d000002
Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': �) = 0x0d000000
Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': ) = 0x7c0e000000
Unknown rich dependency op 'Hat': (Red Hat 15.2.1-7)) = 0x3130363230322000
Unknown rich dependency op 'Hat': (Red Hat 15.2.1-7)) = 0x4728203a43434800
Unknown rich dependency op 'Hat': (Red Hat 15.2.1-7)) = 0x3130363230322000
Unknown rich dependency op 'Hat': (Red Hat 15.2.1-7)) = 0x4728203a43434800
This error comes from the automatic requirements feature of rpm. The
-debuginfo subpackage has no dependencies, so disable this feature with
'AutoReq: 0' for this subpackage, avoiding the error. This matches the
official %_debug_template macro that rpm provides. While automatic
provides should be default enabled, be explicit like %_debug_template
does.
Additionally, while in the area, add the manual debug information
package to the Development/Debug group, further aligning with
%_debug_template.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 62089b804895 ("kbuild: rpm-pkg: Generate debuginfo package manually")
Reported-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAGxU2F7FFNgb781_A7a1oL63n9Oy8wsyWceKhUpeZ6mLk=focw@mail.gmail.com/
Tested-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216-improve-manual-debuginfo-template-v1-1-e584b3f8d3be@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Commit 62089b804895 ("kbuild: rpm-pkg: Generate debuginfo package
manually") added uses of OBJCOPY and READELF, variables from Kbuild.
These variables are defined and work properly when using the binrpm-pkg
target because rpmbuild is run within Kbuild. However, these variables
are not defined when building from a source RPM package generated with
the srcrpm-pkg target, breaking the build when generating the debug info
subpackage.
Define a default value for these variables so that these commands
respect the value from Kbuild but continue to work when built from a
source RPM package.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 62089b804895 ("kbuild: rpm-pkg: Generate debuginfo package manually")
Reported-by: Lukas Herbolt <lukas@herbolt.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20260212135855.147906-2-lukas@herbolt.com/
Tested-by: Lukas Herbolt <lukas@herbolt.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260213-fix-debuginfo-srcrpm-pkg-v1-1-45cd0c0501b9@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Commit 62089b804895 ("kbuild: rpm-pkg: Generate debuginfo package
manually") effectively reverted commit a7c699d090a1 ("kbuild: rpm-pkg:
build a debuginfo RPM") but the approach it took is not safe for older
RPM releases. Restore commit a7c699d090a1 ("kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a
debuginfo RPM") for the !CONFIG_MODULE_SIG case to allow more
environments and configurations to take advantage of the separate debug
information package process.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 62089b804895 ("kbuild: rpm-pkg: Generate debuginfo package manually")
Tested-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260210-kbuild-fix-debuginfo-rpm-v1-2-0730b92b14bc@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>