This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: 8819/1: Remove '-p' from LDFLAGS to the 4.9-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: arm-8819-1-remove-p-from-ldflags.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 091bb549f7722723b284f63ac665e2aedcf9dec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 19:35:25 +0100 Subject: ARM: 8819/1: Remove '-p' from LDFLAGS From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> commit 091bb549f7722723b284f63ac665e2aedcf9dec9 upstream. This option is not supported by lld: ld.lld: error: unknown argument: -p This has been a no-op in binutils since 2004 (see commit dea514f51da1 in that tree). Given that the lowest officially supported of binutils for the kernel is 2.20, which was released in 2009, nobody needs this flag around so just remove it. Commit 1a381d4a0a9a ("arm64: remove no-op -p linker flag") did the same for arm64. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 -- 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ # Ensure linker flags are correct LDFLAGS := -LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=-p --no-undefined -X --pic-veneer +LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --no-undefined -X --pic-veneer ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y) LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8 LDFLAGS_MODULE += --be8 --- a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ GCOV_PROFILE := n -LDFLAGS_bootp :=-p --no-undefined -X \ +LDFLAGS_bootp := --no-undefined -X \ --defsym initrd_phys=$(INITRD_PHYS) \ --defsym params_phys=$(PARAMS_PHYS) -T AFLAGS_initrd.o :=-DINITRD=\"$(INITRD)\" --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -128,8 +128,6 @@ endif ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y) LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8 endif -# ? -LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -p # Report unresolved symbol references LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-undefined # Delete all temporary local symbols Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/arm-8819-1-remove-p-from-ldflags.patch