Commit d50f210913 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat") aligned .modinfo because it appeared in the
x86_64 compressed kernel image after commit 3e86e4d74c ("kbuild: keep
.modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped"), breaking boot.
Commit 8678591b47 ("kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS")
properly addresses .modinfo appearing in unexpected contexts like
compressed images by moving it out of ELF_DETAILS and explicitly
specifying its location in every architecture's vmlinux linker script or
discarding it where it may appear elsewhere.
Effectively revert commit d50f210913 ("kbuild: align modinfo section
for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat") and its follow up fix,
commit a26a6c93ed ("kbuild: Strip trailing padding bytes from
modules.builtin.modinfo"), as they are no longer necessary in the
current tree. This simplifies future cleanups.
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@fritz.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260918005142.GA1585590@ax162/
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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