Re: [PATCH v3 01/20] kbuild: do not allocate .modinfo in vmlinux

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 05:06:11PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> +      cmd_modules_builtin_modinfo = $(OBJCOPY) -O binary -j .modinfo --dump-section .modinfo=$@ $< $@.tmp; \
> +                                    rm -f $@.tmp; \
> +                                    sed -i 's/\x00\+$$/\x00/g' $@

Oh, I just noticed this. I don't think the .tmp is needed. You can just
use /dev/null for the outfile here: no need to write anything unused to
disk; seems to work for binutils and llvm's objcopy.

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Kees Cook