Patch "objtool: Allow building with older libelf" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    objtool: Allow building with older libelf

to the 4.6-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:
     objtool-allow-building-with-older-libelf.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 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 2e51f26245701cb28f154552836b7807159088a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 15:31:07 -0500
Subject: objtool: Allow building with older libelf

From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>

commit 2e51f26245701cb28f154552836b7807159088a8 upstream.

The switch to elf_getshdr{num,strndx} post-dates the oldest tool chain
the kernel is supposed to be able to build with, so try to cope with
such an environment.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/732dae6872b7ff187d94f22bb699a12849d3fe04.1463430618.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/objtool/Makefile |    4 ++++
 tools/objtool/elf.h    |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/objtool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/objtool/Makefile
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ INCLUDES := -I$(srctree)/tools/include
 CFLAGS   += -Wall -Werror $(EXTRA_WARNINGS) -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -g $(INCLUDES)
 LDFLAGS  += -lelf $(LIBSUBCMD)
 
+# Allow old libelf to be used:
+elfshdr := $(shell echo '\#include <libelf.h>' | $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -x c -E - | grep elf_getshdr)
+CFLAGS += $(if $(elfshdr),,-DLIBELF_USE_DEPRECATED)
+
 AWK = awk
 export srctree OUTPUT CFLAGS ARCH AWK
 include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.include
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.h
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/hashtable.h>
 
+#ifdef LIBELF_USE_DEPRECATED
+# define elf_getshdrnum    elf_getshnum
+# define elf_getshdrstrndx elf_getshstrndx
+#endif
+
 struct section {
 	struct list_head list;
 	GElf_Shdr sh;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBeulich@suse.com are

queue-4.6/objtool-allow-building-with-older-libelf.patch