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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
index 7c6ae9886f8f..cd788cac9d91 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
@@ -82,9 +82,12 @@ endif
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
remove-section-y := .modinfo
-remove-section-$(CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS) += '.rel*'
+remove-section-$(CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS) += '.rel*' '!.rel*.dyn'
+# for compatibility with binutils < 2.32
+# https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c12d9fa2afe7abcbe407a00e15719e1a1350c2a7
+remove-section-$(CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS) += '.rel.*'
-remove-symbols := -w --strip-symbol='__mod_device_table__*'
+remove-symbols := -w --strip-unneeded-symbol='__mod_device_table__*'
# To avoid warnings: "empty loadable segment detected at ..." from GNU objcopy,
# it is necessary to remove the PT_LOAD flag from the segment.
@@ -99,11 +102,24 @@ vmlinux: vmlinux.unstripped FORCE
# modules.builtin.modinfo
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# .modinfo in vmlinux.unstripped is aligned to 8 bytes for compatibility with
+# tools that expect vmlinux to have sufficiently aligned sections but the
+# additional bytes used for padding .modinfo to satisfy this requirement break
+# certain versions of kmod with
+#
+# depmod: ERROR: kmod_builtin_iter_next: unexpected string without modname prefix
+#
+# Strip the trailing padding bytes after extracting .modinfo to comply with
+# what kmod expects to parse.
+quiet_cmd_modules_builtin_modinfo = GEN $@
+ cmd_modules_builtin_modinfo = $(cmd_objcopy); \
+ sed -i 's/\x00\+$$/\x00/g' $@
+
OBJCOPYFLAGS_modules.builtin.modinfo := -j .modinfo -O binary
targets += modules.builtin.modinfo
modules.builtin.modinfo: vmlinux.unstripped FORCE
- $(call if_changed,objcopy)
+ $(call if_changed,modules_builtin_modinfo)
# modules.builtin
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------