From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Subject: Re: backport 790756c7e022 to 4.14 and 4.19?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:15:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUA5BDnos1ASlFqM@sashalap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231030212510.equbu7lxlslgoy3t@viti.kaiser.cx>
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 10:25:10PM +0100, Martin Kaiser wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>after upgrading my toolchain to gcc 13.2 and GNU assembler (GNU
>Binutils) 2.41.0.20230926, compiling a 4.14 kernel fails
>
>arch/arm/mm/proc-arm926.S: Assembler messages:
>arch/arm/mm/proc-arm926.S:477: Error: junk at end of line, first
>unrecognized character is `#'
>
>The problem is that gas 2.41.0.20230926 does no longer support
>Solaris style section attributes like
>.section ".start", #alloc, #execinstr
>
>Commit 790756c7e022 ("ARM: 8933/1: replace Sun/Solaris style flag on
>section directive") fixed up the section attributes that used the legacy
>syntax. It seems that this commit landed in 5.5 and has already been
>backported to 5.4.
>
>Should we backport this commit to 4.19 and 4.14 as well? If so, should I
>submit patches that apply against the 4.19 and 4.14 trees or do you want
>to resolve the conflicts when you queue up the patch?
I'll queue it up, thanks!
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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2023-10-30 21:25 backport 790756c7e022 to 4.14 and 4.19? Martin Kaiser
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