[PATCH v3] kbuild: rpm-pkg: Preserve .BTF section in kernel modules during debuginfo stripping
Yafang Shao <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:52:42 +0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kbuild.devel,gmane.linux.kernel.bpf |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <[email protected]> --- scripts/package/kernel.spec | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) v2->v3: use %{__find_debuginfo} (Nathan) 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..1032f337a71c 100644 --- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec +++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec @@ -67,7 +67,17 @@ This package provides debug information for the kernel image and modules from th %undefine _unique_debug_srcs %undefine _debugsource_packages %undefine _debuginfo_subpackages + +# Preserve .BTF section in kernel modules during debuginfo stripping +# find-debuginfo.sh (from debugedit) uses eu-strip which removes +# non-allocated ELF sections like .BTF by default. +%global with_keep_section %(%{__find_debuginfo} --help 2>&1 | grep -c keep-section) +%if %{with_keep_section} +%global _find_debuginfo_opts -r --keep-section .BTF +%else %global _find_debuginfo_opts -r +%endif + %global _missing_build_ids_terminate_build 1 %global _no_recompute_build_ids 1 %{debug_package} -- 2.52.0