On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:04:34AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This series backports commit d5c8d6e0fa61 ("kbuild: Update assembler
> calls to use proper flags and language target") to linux-6.1.y to
> address a recent issue caused by a change in behavior in clang:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/CA+G9fYsJq0sPC+q6vLNKUgBqCGmmjDrfeP4R1-95Eu28FJRY_A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> https://lore.kernel.org/20230612185424.GA2891387@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
>
> While that was not the original intention of the aforementioned change,
> it ends up resolving the issue for the same reason, by not passing flags
> that are not supported or necessary for the current language target
> (KBUILD_CFLAGS for .c files and KBUILD_AFLAGS for .S files) when testing
> flags for that language target.
>
> All patches except the second one are direct backports from mainline.
> The second patch is a stable specific patch because the upstream
> solution could break stable due to the minimum supported version of
> binutils in mainline being a newer version than 6.1 and earlier; it
> chooses to do the more conservative fix, which was alluded to in the
> changelog of the upstream commit.
>
> For now, this is just a 6.1 issue. If the issue occurs in older
> releases, I will send separate backports. If there are any issues or
> objections to this series, please let me know.
All now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
