The patch titled Subject: tools/testing/selftests/exec: fix link error has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is tools-testing-selftests-exec-fix-link-error.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/tools-testing-selftests-exec-fix-link-error.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/tools-testing-selftests-exec-fix-link-error.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: tools/testing/selftests/exec: fix link error Fix the link error by adding '-static': gcc -Wall -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000 -pie load_address.c -o /home/yang/linux/tools/testing/selftests/exec/load_address_4096 /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccopEGun.o: relocation R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21 against symbol `stderr@@GLIBC_2.17' which may bind externally can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccopEGun.o(.text+0x158): unresolvable R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21 relocation against symbol `stderr@@GLIBC_2.17' /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Makefile:25: tools/testing/selftests/exec/load_address_4096] Error 1 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210514092422.2367367-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 206e22f01941 ("tools/testing/selftests: add self-test for verifying load alignment") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Kennelly <ckennelly@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile~tools-testing-selftests-exec-fix-link-error +++ a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ $(OUTPUT)/execveat.denatured: $(OUTPUT)/ cp $< $@ chmod -x $@ $(OUTPUT)/load_address_4096: load_address.c - $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000 -pie $< -o $@ + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000 -pie -static $< -o $@ $(OUTPUT)/load_address_2097152: load_address.c - $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x200000 -pie $< -o $@ + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x200000 -pie -static $< -o $@ $(OUTPUT)/load_address_16777216: load_address.c - $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000000 -pie $< -o $@ + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000000 -pie -static $< -o $@ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx are tools-testing-selftests-exec-fix-link-error.patch ocfs2-remove-unnecessary-init_list_head.patch