[PATCH 6.18 715/752] kernel: rpm-pkg: Restore find-debuginfo.sh approach to -debuginfo package

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:58:53Z

From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit ffe9ac1ad56df8f915896b97bd7645f522c47ce9 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
scripts/package/kernel.spec | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
scripts/package/mkspec | 5 ++++
2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/package/kernel.spec b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
index b7deb159f404d..af682a7054779 100644
--- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec
+++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
%{!?_arch: %define _arch dummy}
%{!?make: %define make make}
%define makeflags %{?_smp_mflags} ARCH=%{ARCH}
-%define __spec_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress || :
-%define debug_package %{nil}

Name: kernel
Summary: The Linux Kernel
@@ -56,6 +54,38 @@ This package provides debug information for the kernel image and modules from th
%define install_mod_strip 1
%endif

+%if %{with_debuginfo_rpm}
+# list of debuginfo-related options taken from distribution kernel.spec
+# files
+%undefine _include_minidebuginfo
+%undefine _find_debuginfo_dwz_opts
+%undefine _unique_build_ids
+%undefine _unique_debug_names
+%undefine _unique_debug_srcs
+%undefine _debugsource_packages
+%undefine _debuginfo_subpackages
+%global _find_debuginfo_opts -r
+%global _missing_build_ids_terminate_build 1
+%global _no_recompute_build_ids 1
+%{debug_package}
+
+# later, we make all modules executable so that find-debuginfo.sh strips
+# them up. but they don't actually need to be executable, so remove the
+# executable bit, taking care to do it _after_ find-debuginfo.sh has run
+%define __spec_install_post \
+ %{?__debug_package:%{__debug_install_post}} \
+ %{__arch_install_post} \
+ %{__os_install_post} \
+ find %{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE} -name "*.ko" -type f \\\
+ | xargs --no-run-if-empty chmod u-x
+%else
+%define __spec_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress || :
+%endif
+# some (but not all) versions of rpmbuild emit %%debug_package with
+# %%install. since we've already emitted it manually, that would cause
+# a package redefinition error. ensure that doesn't happen
+%define debug_package %{nil}
+
%prep
%setup -q -n linux
cp %{SOURCE1} .config
@@ -99,14 +129,22 @@ ln -fns /usr/src/kernels/%{KERNELRELEASE} %{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEA
echo "%exclude /lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/build"
} > %{buildroot}/kernel.list

-%if %{with_debuginfo_manual}
+%if 0%{with_debuginfo_manual}%{with_debuginfo_rpm} > 0
# copying vmlinux directly to the debug directory means it will not get
# stripped (but its source paths will still be collected + fixed up)
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}
cp vmlinux %{buildroot}/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}
+%endif

-echo /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/vmlinux > %{buildroot}/debuginfo.list
+%if %{with_debuginfo_rpm}
+# make modules executable so that find-debuginfo.sh strips them. this
+# will be undone later in %%__spec_install_post
+find %{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE} -name "*.ko" -type f \
+ | xargs --no-run-if-empty chmod u+x
+%endif

+%if %{with_debuginfo_manual}
+echo /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/vmlinux > %{buildroot}/debuginfo.list
while read -r mod; do
mod="${mod%.o}.ko"
dbg="%{buildroot}/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/kernel/${mod}"
@@ -124,6 +162,10 @@ done < modules.order

%clean
rm -rf %{buildroot}
+%if %{with_debuginfo_rpm}
+rm -f debugfiles.list debuglinks.list debugsourcefiles.list debugsources.list \
+ elfbins.list
+%endif

%post
if [ -x /usr/bin/kernel-install ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec
index 1080395ca0e16..c604f8c174e2c 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkspec
+++ b/scripts/package/mkspec
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ else
echo '%define with_devel 0'
fi

+# use %{debug_package} machinery to generate -debuginfo
+with_debuginfo_rpm=0
# manually generate -debuginfo package
with_debuginfo_manual=0
# debuginfo package generation uses find-debuginfo.sh under the hood,
@@ -56,9 +58,12 @@ if grep -q CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y include/config/auto.conf &&
with_debuginfo_manual='%{?_without_debuginfo:0}%{?!_without_debuginfo:1}'
fi
fi
+ else
+ with_debuginfo_rpm='%{?_without_debuginfo:0}%{?!_without_debuginfo:1}'
fi
fi
echo "%define with_debuginfo_manual $with_debuginfo_manual"
+echo "%define with_debuginfo_rpm $with_debuginfo_rpm"

cat<<EOF
%define ARCH ${ARCH}
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