kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux

Prior to binutils commit c12d9fa2afe ("Support objcopy
--remove-section=.relaFOO") [1] in 2.32, stripping relocation sections
required the trailing period (i.e., '.rel.*') to work properly.

After commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped"), there is an error with binutils 2.31.1 or earlier
because these sections are not properly removed:

  s390-linux-objcopy: st6tO8Ev: symbol `.modinfo' required but not present
  s390-linux-objcopy:st6tO8Ev: no symbols

Add the old pattern to resolve this issue (along with a comment to allow
cleaning this when binutils 2.32 or newer is the minimum supported
version). While the aforementioned kbuild change exposes this, the
pattern was originally changed by commit 71d815bf5dfd ("kbuild: Strip
runtime const RELA sections correctly"), where it would still be
incorrect with binutils older than 2.32.

Fixes: 71d815bf5dfd ("kbuild: Strip runtime const RELA sections correctly")
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c12d9fa2afe7abcbe407a00e15719e1a1350c2a7
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CA+G9fYvVktRhFtZXdNgVOL8j+ArsJDpvMLgCitaQvQmCx=hwOQ@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008-kbuild-fix-modinfo-regressions-v1-2-9fc776c5887c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
index a62639982be5bc41bcec2416c7d850eae008a3d4..c02f85c2e241afd6e971481aa72aaac1967aeb09 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ endif
 
 remove-section-y                                   := .modinfo
 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__*'