I'm debugging a kernel module with gdb. For that I'm using a modified lx-symbols script that tells gdb addresses of all loadable sections using the following command: (gdb) add-symbol-file arch/s390/lib/test_unwind.ko 0x3ff8005e104 \ -s .note.gnu.build-id 0x3ff8005f000 \ -s .note.Linux 0x3ff8005f024 \ -s .text 0x3ff8005e108 \ -s .text.unlikely 0x3ff8005e400 \ -s .rodata 0x3ff8005f03c \ -s .rodata.str1.2 0x3ff8005f04e \ -s __mcount_loc 0x3ff8005f640 \ -s .gnu.linkonce.this_module 0x3ff80060000 \ -s .symtab 0x3ff80058000 \ -s .strtab 0x3ff800588a0 In general this works great, but it has a nasty side-effect of adding unwanted symbols: (gdb) bt #0 __unwind_start (state=0x3e000483860, task=0x0 <__UNIQUE_ID_license22>, regs=0x0 <__UNIQUE_ID_license22>, sp=0) at arch/s390/kernel/unwind_bc.c:114 (gdb) info symbol 0x0 __UNIQUE_ID_license22 in section .modinfo of arch/s390/lib/test_unwind.ko Note that I never requested symbols from .modinfo section. This does not happen if I remove some random unrelated sections from the command: (gdb) add-symbol-file arch/s390/lib/test_unwind.ko 0x3ff8005e104 \ -s .text 0x3ff8005e108 \ -s .text.unlikely 0x3ff8005e400 (gdb) bt #0 __unwind_start (state=0x3e000483860, task=0x0, regs=0x0, sp=0) at s390/kernel/unwind_bc.c:114