Patch "kbuild: Add CLANG_FLAGS to as-instr" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kbuild: Add CLANG_FLAGS to as-instr

to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kbuild-add-clang_flags-to-as-instr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


From stable+bounces-167085-greg=kroah.com@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 12 01:52:35 2025
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:51:49 -0700
Subject: kbuild: Add CLANG_FLAGS to as-instr
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev
Message-ID: <20250811235151.1108688-5-nathan@kernel.org>

From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

commit cff6e7f50bd315e5b39c4e46c704ac587ceb965f upstream.

A future change will move CLANG_FLAGS from KBUILD_{A,C}FLAGS to
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS so that '--target' is available while preprocessing.
When that occurs, the following errors appear multiple times when
building ARCH=powerpc powernv_defconfig:

  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o):(.text+0x12d4): relocation R_PPC64_ADDR16_HI out of range: -4611686018409717520 is not in [-2147483648, 2147483647]; references '__start___soft_mask_table'
  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o):(.text+0x12e8): relocation R_PPC64_ADDR16_HI out of range: -4611686018409717392 is not in [-2147483648, 2147483647]; references '__stop___soft_mask_table'

Diffing the .o.cmd files reveals that -DHAVE_AS_ATHIGH=1 is not present
anymore, because as-instr only uses KBUILD_AFLAGS, which will no longer
contain '--target'.

Mirror Kconfig's as-instr and add CLANG_FLAGS explicitly to the
invocation to ensure the target information is always present.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 scripts/Kbuild.include |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ as-option = $(call try-run,\
 # Usage: aflags-y += $(call as-instr,instr,option1,option2)
 
 as-instr = $(call try-run,\
-	printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(CC) -Werror $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -c -x assembler-with-cpp -o "$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
+	printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(CC) -Werror $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -c -x assembler-with-cpp -o "$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
 
 # __cc-option
 # Usage: MY_CFLAGS += $(call __cc-option,$(CC),$(MY_CFLAGS),-march=winchip-c6,-march=i586)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nathan@kernel.org are

queue-5.4/kbuild-add-clang_flags-to-as-instr.patch
queue-5.4/wifi-brcmsmac-remove-const-from-tbl_ptr-parameter-in-wlc_lcnphy_common_read_table.patch
queue-5.4/mips-include-kbuild_cppflags-in-checkflags-invocation.patch
queue-5.4/kbuild-add-clang_flags-to-kbuild_cppflags.patch
queue-5.4/ftrace-also-allocate-and-copy-hash-for-reading-of-filter-files.patch
queue-5.4/memstick-core-zero-initialize-id_reg-in-h_memstick_read_dev_id.patch
queue-5.4/kbuild-update-assembler-calls-to-use-proper-flags-and-language-target.patch
queue-5.4/phonet-pep-move-call-to-pn_skb_get_dst_sockaddr-earlier-in-pep_sock_accept.patch
queue-5.4/arm-9448-1-use-an-absolute-path-to-unified.h-in-kbuild_aflags.patch
queue-5.4/kbuild-add-kbuild_cppflags-to-as-option-invocation.patch
queue-5.4/usb-atm-cxacru-merge-cxacru_upload_firmware-into-cxacru_heavy_init.patch