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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-11-13 12:32:50 -0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-11-13 12:35:38 -0800
commitc99ebb6132595b4b288a413981197eb076547c5a (patch)
tree6ef2de29b7afb5f1107b8e11489c09f0a5290260 /scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
parentf694d215d34035cc64b1d176fd82db0d1f2428d4 (diff)
parentd0309c054362a235077327b46f727bc48878a3bc (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc6). No conflicts, adjacent changes in: drivers/net/phy/micrel.c 96a9178a29a6 ("net: phy: micrel: lan8814 fix reset of the QSGMII interface") 61b7ade9ba8c ("net: phy: micrel: Add support for non PTP SKUs for lan8814") and a trivial one in tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/Makefile. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/Makefile.vmlinux')
-rw-r--r--scripts/Makefile.vmlinux15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
index ced4379550d7..cd788cac9d91 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
@@ -102,11 +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
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------