This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ld-version: Fix awk regex compile failure to the 4.4-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: ld-version-fix-awk-regex-compile-failure.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4b7b1ef2c2f83d702272555e8adb839a50ba0f8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:47:53 +0000 Subject: ld-version: Fix awk regex compile failure From: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 4b7b1ef2c2f83d702272555e8adb839a50ba0f8e upstream. The ld-version.sh script fails on some versions of awk with the following error, resulting in build failures for MIPS: awk: scripts/ld-version.sh: line 4: regular expression compile failed (missing '(') This is due to the regular expression ".*)", meant to strip off the beginning of the ld version string up to the close bracket, however brackets have a meaning in regular expressions, so lets escape it so that awk doesn't expect a corresponding open bracket. Fixes: ccbef1674a15 ("Kbuild, lto: add ld-version and ld-ifversion ...") Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12838/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/ld-version.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/ld-version.sh +++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/usr/bin/awk -f # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number { - gsub(".*)", ""); + gsub(".*\\)", ""); split($1,a, "."); print a[1]*10000000 + a[2]*100000 + a[3]*10000 + a[4]*100 + a[5]; exit Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ld-version-fix-awk-regex-compile-failure.patch queue-4.4/mips-smp.c-fix-uninitialised-temp_foreign_map.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html