The S390 defconfig builds failed on the Linux next-20251002 tag build due to following build warnings / errors with gcc-8 toolchain.
* S390, build - gcc-8-defconfig
First seen on next-20251002 Good: next-20250929 Bad: next-20251002..next-20251003
Regression Analysis: - New regression? yes - Reproducibility? yes
Test regression: next-20251002: S390: gcc-8-defconfig: symbol `.modinfo' required but not present - no symbols
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
### Build error log s390x-linux-gnu-ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment s390x-linux-gnu-ld: .tmp_vmlinux2: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment s390x-linux-gnu-ld: vmlinux.unstripped: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment s390x-linux-gnu-objcopy: vmlinux: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment s390x-linux-gnu-objcopy: stM7JmYX: warning: allocated section `.got.plt' not in segment s390x-linux-gnu-objcopy: stM7JmYX: symbol `.modinfo' required but not present s390x-linux-gnu-objcopy:stM7JmYX: no symbols make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:97: vmlinux] Error 1
## Source * Kernel version: 6.17.0 * Git tree: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git * Git commit: 47a8d4b89844f5974f634b4189a39d5ccbacd81c * Architectures: S390 * Toolchains: gcc-8 * Kconfigs: defconfig
## Build * Build log: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/33YUHdDpSLSMJfU4MFvRy... * Build details: https://regressions.linaro.org/lkft/linux-next-master/next-20251003/build/gc... * Build plan: https://tuxapi.tuxsuite.com/v1/groups/linaro/projects/lkft/builds/33YUHdDpSL... * Build link: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/33YUHdDpSLSMJfU4MFvRy... * Kernel config: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/33YUHdDpSLSMJfU4MFvRy...
## Steps to reproduce tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch s390 --toolchain gcc-8 --kconfig defconfig --kconfig-add CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=n
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