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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: alpha patches for v4.4.y / v4.9.y
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:24:55 +0100
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To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:33:08AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently started to add basic networking tests to my qemu test environment.
> When adding the necessary build options to Alpha kernels, I noticed that v4.4.y
> and v4.9.y no longer build due to relocation errors such as
> 
> net/built-in.o: In function `__copy_tofrom_user_nocheck':
> arch/alpha/include/asm/uaccess.h:364:(.text+0xff444):
> 		relocation truncated to fit: BRSGP against symbol `__copy_user'
> 
> The following patches fix the problem.
> 
> v4.9.y:
> 
> 5ed78e5523fd alpha: add $(src)/ rather than $(obj)/ to make source file path
> e19a4e3f1bff alpha: merge build rules of division routines
> 3eec0291830e alpha: make short build log available for division routines
> 4758ce82e667 alpha: Package string routines together
> 
> 8525023121de alpha: switch __copy_user() and __do_clean_user() to normal calling conventions
> 
> v4.4.y:
> 
> 5ed78e5523fd alpha: add $(src)/ rather than $(obj)/ to make source file path
> e19a4e3f1bff alpha: merge build rules of division routines
> 3eec0291830e alpha: make short build log available for division routines
> 4758ce82e667 alpha: Package string routines together
> 
> 00fc0e0dda62 alpha: move exports to actual definitions
> 085354f90796 alpha: get rid of tail-zeroing in __copy_user()
> 8525023121de alpha: switch __copy_user() and __do_clean_user() to normal calling conventions
> 
> Only the last patch of each group is really needed; I pulled the other
> patches in to avoid conflicts.
> 
> Please consider adding those patches to the respective kernels.

All now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h