Arch Linux

Description:

Greetings! Firstly, I apologize in advance if this is not strictly a kernel bug - I'm unsure if this is a kernel issue, a GCC issue, or an Arch packaging issue.

Since upgrading to kernel 5.19.3-arch1-1 and GCC 12.2.0-1, I have been unable to load _any_ modules that are built using DKMS. As an example, I have built the xone_gip module but attempting to modprobe/insmod the module returns the following:

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'xone_gip': Operation not permitted

If I look in dmesg, I can see the following whenever I try to load the module:

[ 47.372403] BPF: [112255] Invalid kind:19
[ 47.372405] failed to validate module [xone_gip] BTF: -22

After some digging, it seems like support for BTF/BPF is something that was added to GCC in the 12.x series. For fun I tried dumping the symbols from one of the compiled modules using objdump -x xone-gip.ko (after decompressing it) and noticed the following section:

30 .BTF 0000dc6e 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00005e4c 2**0

So it seems to me that now GCC is adding that .BTF section into the compiled modules, and the kernel doesn't like it. Stripping out all the BTF sections with this shell script seems to allow the modules to load successfully:

cd /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates/dkms
for file in *.zst
do
cp "$file" "$file.bak"
unzstd -f "$file"
base=$(basename "$file" .zst)
objcopy --remove-section .BTF "$base"
zstd -f "$base"
rm -f "$base"
done

Once stripped thusly, loading the modules works fine.

I have tested this with the following DKMS modules:
- xone_gip
- hid-xpadneo
- openrazer

In all scenarios, the behaviour is the same: without running the stripping script above, trying to load the module only yields the "Invalid kind" and "BTF" errors.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
linux-5.19.3-arch1-1, gcc-12.2.0-1
* config and/or log files etc.
* link to upstream bug report, if any

Steps to reproduce:
- Install linux-5.19.3-arch1-1 and gcc-12.2.0-1
- Reboot
- Build a module using DKMS
- Attempt to modprobe it and receive error similar to "modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'hid_xpadneo': Invalid argument"
- Observe "Invalid kind:19" and "BTF: -22" error messages in dmesg output

Related discussions:
- https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/ww9fa2/problems_with_dkms_modules_and_kernel_519x_gcc_122/ (I am the original author of this post)
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2053487