This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tools/testing/selftests/exec: fix link error to the 5.12-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: tools-testing-selftests-exec-fix-link-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e92cbd6c25fcf897c272b7edd8c752365afd377a Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 22 17:41:53 2021 -0700 tools/testing/selftests/exec: fix link error [ Upstream commit 4d1cd3b2c5c1c32826454de3a18c6183238d47ed ] 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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile index cf69b2fcce59..dd61118df66e 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ $(OUTPUT)/execveat.denatured: $(OUTPUT)/execveat 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 $@