This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc: Add missing "FORCE" target when using if_changed to the 5.15-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: sparc-add-missing-force-target-when-using-if_changed.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 16195fe5fcd1c5426bc373fb087ef2e572be34ec Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Sep 23 14:54:18 2021 -0700 sparc: Add missing "FORCE" target when using if_changed [ Upstream commit a3c7ca2b141b9735eb383246e966a4f4322e3e65 ] Fix observed warning: /builds/linux/arch/sparc/boot/Makefile:35: FORCE prerequisite is missing Fixes: e1f86d7b4b2a ("kbuild: warn if FORCE is missing for if_changed(_dep,_rule) and filechk") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/sparc/boot/Makefile b/arch/sparc/boot/Makefile index 849236d4eca48..45e5c76d449ea 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/boot/Makefile +++ b/arch/sparc/boot/Makefile @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_SPARC64),y) # Actual linking -$(obj)/zImage: $(obj)/image +$(obj)/zImage: $(obj)/image FORCE $(call if_changed,gzip) @echo ' kernel: $@ is ready' @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ $(obj)/vmlinux.aout: vmlinux FORCE @echo ' kernel: $@ is ready' else -$(obj)/zImage: $(obj)/image +$(obj)/zImage: $(obj)/image FORCE $(call if_changed,strip) @echo ' kernel: $@ is ready' @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OBJCOPYFLAGS_image.bin := -S -O binary -R .note -R .comment $(obj)/image.bin: $(obj)/image FORCE $(call if_changed,objcopy) -$(obj)/image.gz: $(obj)/image.bin +$(obj)/image.gz: $(obj)/image.bin FORCE $(call if_changed,gzip) UIMAGE_LOADADDR = $(CONFIG_UBOOT_LOAD_ADDR) @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ quiet_cmd_uimage.o = UIMAGE.O $@ -r -b binary $@ -o $@.o targets += uImage -$(obj)/uImage: $(obj)/image.gz +$(obj)/uImage: $(obj)/image.gz FORCE $(call if_changed,uimage) $(call if_changed,uimage.o) @echo ' Image $@ is ready'