From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
To: nathan@kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] kbuild: rpm-pkg: Preserve .BTF section in kernel modules during debuginfo stripping
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:53:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260716025342.42628-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com> (raw)
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.
Fix by passing --keep-section .BTF via _find_debuginfo_opts, which adds
-K .BTF to the eu-strip/strip command, preserving the .BTF section 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
Assisted-by: Comagic:DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
---
scripts/package/kernel.spec | 2 +-
scripts/package/mkspec | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
v1->v2: check if find-debuginfo.sh supports --keep-section (sashiko-bot)
diff --git a/scripts/package/kernel.spec b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
index c732415662ef..2e16de54ed74 100644
--- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec
+++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ This package provides debug information for the kernel image and modules from th
%undefine _unique_debug_srcs
%undefine _debugsource_packages
%undefine _debuginfo_subpackages
-%global _find_debuginfo_opts -r
+%global _find_debuginfo_opts -r%{?with_keep_section: --keep-section .BTF}
%global _missing_build_ids_terminate_build 1
%global _no_recompute_build_ids 1
%{debug_package}
diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec
index c604f8c174e2..00acef348ba8 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkspec
+++ b/scripts/package/mkspec
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ fi
echo "%define with_debuginfo_manual $with_debuginfo_manual"
echo "%define with_debuginfo_rpm $with_debuginfo_rpm"
+# Detect if find-debuginfo.sh supports --keep-section (RHEL 9+)
+if find-debuginfo.sh --help 2>&1 | grep -q keep-section; then
+ echo "%global with_keep_section 1"
+fi
+
cat<<EOF
%define ARCH ${ARCH}
%define KERNELRELEASE ${KERNELRELEASE}
--
2.52.0
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2026-07-16 2:53 Yafang Shao [this message]
[not found] ` <20260716030116.C613E1F000E9@smtp.kernel.org>
[not found] ` <CALOAHbBQhAsTMHMMZH5Sen0cDYg8GREZMmQcT4Njc9VW_WHe4Q@mail.gmail.com>
2026-07-24 0:00 ` [PATCH v2] kbuild: rpm-pkg: Preserve .BTF section in kernel modules during debuginfo stripping Nathan Chancellor
2026-07-24 2:49 ` Yafang Shao
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