Re: next-20251002: S390: gcc-8-defconfig: symbol `.modinfo' required but not present - no symbols

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 04:41:19PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
...
> > > ### Build error log
> > > s390x-linux-gnu-ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment
> > > s390x-linux-gnu-ld: .tmp_vmlinux2: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment
> > > s390x-linux-gnu-ld: vmlinux.unstripped: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment
> > > s390x-linux-gnu-objcopy: vmlinux: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment
> > > s390x-linux-gnu-objcopy: stM7JmYX: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment

So these warnings should be fixed with:

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index feecf1a6ddb4..d74d4c52ccd0 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -214,6 +214,28 @@ SECTIONS
 	DWARF_DEBUG
 	ELF_DETAILS
 
+	/*
+	 * Make sure that the .got.plt is either completely empty or it
+	 * contains only the three reserved double words.
+	 */
+	.got.plt : {
+		*(.got.plt)
+	}
+	ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18, "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
+
+	/*
+	 * Sections that should stay zero sized, which is safer to
+	 * explicitly check instead of blindly discarding.
+	 */
+	.plt : {
+		*(.plt) *(.plt.*) *(.iplt) *(.igot .igot.plt)
+	}
+	ASSERT(SIZEOF(.plt) == 0, "Unexpected run-time procedure linkages detected!")
+	.rela.dyn : {
+		*(.rela.*) *(.rela_*)
+	}
+	ASSERT(SIZEOF(.rela.dyn) == 0, "Unexpected run-time relocations (.rela) detected!")
+
 	/*
 	 * uncompressed image info used by the decompressor
 	 * it should match struct vmlinux_info
@@ -244,28 +266,6 @@ SECTIONS
 #endif
 	} :NONE
 
-	/*
-	 * Make sure that the .got.plt is either completely empty or it
-	 * contains only the three reserved double words.
-	 */
-	.got.plt : {
-		*(.got.plt)
-	}
-	ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18, "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
-
-	/*
-	 * Sections that should stay zero sized, which is safer to
-	 * explicitly check instead of blindly discarding.
-	 */
-	.plt : {
-		*(.plt) *(.plt.*) *(.iplt) *(.igot .igot.plt)
-	}
-	ASSERT(SIZEOF(.plt) == 0, "Unexpected run-time procedure linkages detected!")
-	.rela.dyn : {
-		*(.rela.*) *(.rela_*)
-	}
-	ASSERT(SIZEOF(.rela.dyn) == 0, "Unexpected run-time relocations (.rela) detected!")
-
 	/* Sections to be discarded */
 	DISCARDS
 	/DISCARD/ : {

I am unsure why newer binutils does not show this but I did not care
enough to actually bisect.

> > > s390x-linux-gnu-objcopy: stM7JmYX: symbol `.modinfo' required but not present
> > > s390x-linux-gnu-objcopy:stM7JmYX: no symbols

I did bisect binutils to figure out that commit c12d9fa2afe ("Support
objcopy --remove-section=.relaFOO") [1] in binutils 2.32 resolves this
error.

I can fix this for those older binutils with:

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
index 7c6ae9886f8f..9ea92c3317dc 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ endif
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 remove-section-y                                   := .modinfo
-remove-section-$(CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS) += '.rel*'
+remove-section-$(CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS) += '.rel*' '.rel.*'
 
 remove-symbols := -w --strip-symbol='__mod_device_table__*'
 

I can send a patch series tomorrow.

[1]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c12d9fa2afe7abcbe407a00e15719e1a1350c2a7

Cheers,
Nathan