This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kbuild: avoid static_assert for genksyms
to the 4.19-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-avoid-static_assert-for-genksyms.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 14dc3983b5dff513a90bd5a8cc90acaf7867c3d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:36:38 -0800
Subject: kbuild: avoid static_assert for genksyms
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
commit 14dc3983b5dff513a90bd5a8cc90acaf7867c3d0 upstream.
genksyms does not know or care about the _Static_assert() built-in, and
sometimes falls back to ignoring the later symbols, which causes
undefined behavior such as
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "ethtool_set_ethtool_phy_ops" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
ld: net/ethtool/common.o: relocation R_AARCH64_ABS32 against `__crc_ethtool_set_ethtool_phy_ops' can not be used when making a shared object
net/ethtool/common.o:(_ftrace_annotated_branch+0x0): dangerous relocation: unsupported relocation
Redefine static_assert for genksyms to avoid that.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201203230955.1482058-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/build_bug.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/build_bug.h
+++ b/include/linux/build_bug.h
@@ -80,4 +80,9 @@
#endif /* __CHECKER__ */
+#ifdef __GENKSYMS__
+/* genksyms gets confused by _Static_assert */
+#define _Static_assert(expr, ...)
+#endif
+
#endif /* _LINUX_BUILD_BUG_H */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.19/kbuild-avoid-static_assert-for-genksyms.patch
