FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ARM: 9448/1: Use an absolute path to unified.h in" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ARM: 9448/1: Use an absolute path to unified.h in" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 87c4e1459e80bf65066f864c762ef4dc932fad4b
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025072854-backstab-skeletal-e45e@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 87c4e1459e80bf65066f864c762ef4dc932fad4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:08:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: 9448/1: Use an absolute path to unified.h in
 KBUILD_AFLAGS

After commit d5c8d6e0fa61 ("kbuild: Update assembler calls to use proper
flags and language target"), which updated as-instr to use the
'assembler-with-cpp' language option, the Kbuild version of as-instr
always fails internally for arch/arm with

  <command-line>: fatal error: asm/unified.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.

because '-include' flags are now taken into account by the compiler
driver and as-instr does not have '$(LINUXINCLUDE)', so unified.h is not
found.

This went unnoticed at the time of the Kbuild change because the last
use of as-instr in Kbuild that arch/arm could reach was removed in 5.7
by commit 541ad0150ca4 ("arm: Remove 32bit KVM host support") but a
stable backport of the Kbuild change to before that point exposed this
potential issue if one were to be reintroduced.

Follow the general pattern of '-include' paths throughout the tree and
make unified.h absolute using '$(srctree)' to ensure KBUILD_AFLAGS can
be used independently.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CACo-S-1qbCX4WAVFA63dWfHtrRHZBTyyr2js8Lx=Az03XHTTHg@mail.gmail.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d5c8d6e0fa61 ("kbuild: Update assembler calls to use proper flags and language target")
Reported-by: KernelCI bot <bot@kernelci.org>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 4808d3ed98e4..e31e95ffd33f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ endif
 # Need -Uarm for gcc < 3.x
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS	+=$(cpp-y)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(CFLAGS_ISA) $(arch-y) $(tune-y) $(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,)) -msoft-float -Uarm
-KBUILD_AFLAGS	+=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(AFLAGS_ISA) -Wa,$(arch-y) $(tune-y) -include asm/unified.h -msoft-float
+KBUILD_AFLAGS	+=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(AFLAGS_ISA) -Wa,$(arch-y) $(tune-y) -include $(srctree)/arch/arm/include/asm/unified.h -msoft-float
 KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += --target=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi
 
 CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__arm__

[PATCH 6.1.y] ARM: 9448/1: Use an absolute path to unified.h in KBUILD_AFLAGS

[Sasha Levin]

From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 87c4e1459e80bf65066f864c762ef4dc932fad4b ]

After commit d5c8d6e0fa61 ("kbuild: Update assembler calls to use proper
flags and language target"), which updated as-instr to use the
'assembler-with-cpp' language option, the Kbuild version of as-instr
always fails internally for arch/arm with

  <command-line>: fatal error: asm/unified.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.

because '-include' flags are now taken into account by the compiler
driver and as-instr does not have '$(LINUXINCLUDE)', so unified.h is not
found.

This went unnoticed at the time of the Kbuild change because the last
use of as-instr in Kbuild that arch/arm could reach was removed in 5.7
by commit 541ad0150ca4 ("arm: Remove 32bit KVM host support") but a
stable backport of the Kbuild change to before that point exposed this
potential issue if one were to be reintroduced.

Follow the general pattern of '-include' paths throughout the tree and
make unified.h absolute using '$(srctree)' to ensure KBUILD_AFLAGS can
be used independently.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CACo-S-1qbCX4WAVFA63dWfHtrRHZBTyyr2js8Lx=Az03XHTTHg@mail.gmail.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d5c8d6e0fa61 ("kbuild: Update assembler calls to use proper flags and language target")
Reported-by: KernelCI bot <bot@kernelci.org>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
[ adapted to missing -Wa ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index c846119c448f..590617240947 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ endif
 
 # Need -Uarm for gcc < 3.x
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(CFLAGS_ISA) $(arch-y) $(tune-y) $(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,)) -msoft-float -Uarm
-KBUILD_AFLAGS	+=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(AFLAGS_ISA) $(arch-y) $(tune-y) -include asm/unified.h -msoft-float
+KBUILD_AFLAGS	+=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(AFLAGS_ISA) $(arch-y) $(tune-y) -include $(srctree)/arch/arm/include/asm/unified.h -msoft-float
 
 CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__arm__
 
-- 
2.39.5