This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/vdso: Create .build-id links for unstripped vdso files to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: s390-vdso-create-.build-id-links-for-unstripped-vdso.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 03568e3b94f83e2cbaf5d9fa56d3d2fccd9136df Author: Jens Remus <jremus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Apr 29 17:02:53 2024 +0200 s390/vdso: Create .build-id links for unstripped vdso files [ Upstream commit fc2f5f10f9bc5e58d38e9fda7dae107ac04a799f ] Citing Andy Lutomirski from commit dda1e95cee38 ("x86/vdso: Create .build-id links for unstripped vdso files"): "With this change, doing 'make vdso_install' and telling gdb: set debug-file-directory /lib/modules/KVER/vdso will enable vdso debugging with symbols. This is useful for testing, but kernel RPM builds will probably want to manually delete these symlinks or otherwise do something sensible when they strip the vdso/*.so files." Fixes: 4bff8cb54502 ("s390: convert to GENERIC_VDSO") Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vdsoinst b/scripts/Makefile.vdsoinst index c477d17b0aa5b..a81ca735003e4 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.vdsoinst +++ b/scripts/Makefile.vdsoinst @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ $$(dest): $$(src) FORCE $$(call cmd,install) # Some architectures create .build-id symlinks -ifneq ($(filter arm sparc x86, $(SRCARCH)),) +ifneq ($(filter arm s390 sparc x86, $(SRCARCH)),) link := $(install-dir)/.build-id/$$(shell $(READELF) -n $$(src) | sed -n 's@^.*Build ID: \(..\)\(.*\)@\1/\2@p').debug __default: $$(link)