mainline inclusion
from mainline-v5.2-rc1
commit 898490c0
category: bugfix
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I390TB
CVE: NA

Backporting this patch is to fix an issue happened when the 5.10
kernel is building on openEuler 20.03 system.

In openEuler 20.03 system, some modules ware built-in kernel. But
in 5.10 kernel, those corresponding modules will be built as KO.
For built-in kernel, kmode 2.7+ will fetch the modinfo from
modules.builtin.modinfo which is only supported in kernel 5.2+.

In the rpmbuild process, kernel spec will call kmod to query
modinfo of the KO images. It will fail for 'file missing'.

With backporting the mainline commit below, kmod can fetch any module's
information from the corresponding module image or
modules.builtin.modinfo.

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Problem:

When a kernel module is compiled as a separate module, some important
information about the kernel module is available via .modinfo section of
the module.  In contrast, when the kernel module is compiled into the
kernel, that information is not available.

Information about built-in modules is necessary in the following cases:

1. When it is necessary to find out what additional parameters can be
passed to the kernel at boot time.

2. When you need to know which module names and their aliases are in
the kernel. This is very useful for creating an initrd image.

Proposal:

The proposed patch does not remove .modinfo section with module
information from the vmlinux at the build time and saves it into a
separate file after kernel linking. So, the kernel does not increase in
size and no additional information remains in it. Information is stored
in the same format as in the separate modules (null-terminated string
array). Because the .modinfo section is already exported with a separate
modules, we are not creating a new API.

It can be easily read in the userspace:

$ tr '\0' '\n' < modules.builtin.modinfo
ext4.softdep=pre: crc32c
ext4.license=GPL
ext4.description=Fourth Extended Filesystem
ext4.author=Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others
ext4.alias=fs-ext4
ext4.alias=ext3
ext4.alias=fs-ext3
ext4.alias=ext2
ext4.alias=fs-ext2
md_mod.alias=block-major-9-*
md_mod.alias=md
md_mod.description=MD RAID framework
md_mod.license=GPL
md_mod.parmtype=create_on_open:bool
md_mod.parmtype=start_dirty_degraded:int
...
Co-Developed-by: NGleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NGleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: NZhichang Yuan <erik.yuan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: NXie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NCheng Jian <cj.chengjian@huawei.com>