This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kbuild: fix single directory build 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: kbuild-fix-single-directory-build.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. >From 3753af778dd9d0d5199d6a7d01b0ead33135d095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 05:18:11 +0900 Subject: kbuild: fix single directory build From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 3753af778dd9d0d5199d6a7d01b0ead33135d095 upstream. Commit f110e5a250e3 ("kbuild: refactor single builds of *.ko") was wrong. KBUILD_MODULES _is_ needed for single builds. Otherwise, "make foo/bar/baz/" does not build module objects at all. Fixes: f110e5a250e3 ("kbuild: refactor single builds of *.ko") Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1890,6 +1890,8 @@ export KBUILD_SINGLE_TARGETS := $(addpre build-dirs := $(foreach d, $(build-dirs), \ $(if $(filter $(d)/%, $(KBUILD_SINGLE_TARGETS)), $(d))) +KBUILD_MODULES := 1 + endif # Handle descending into subdirectories listed in $(build-dirs) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/kbuild-fix-single-directory-build.patch queue-5.15/kbuild-refactor-single-builds-of-.ko.patch