This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled um: Don't discard .text.exit section to the 4.7-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: um-don-t-discard-.text.exit-section.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dad2232844073295c64e9cc2d734a0ade043e0f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 18:10:11 +0300 Subject: um: Don't discard .text.exit section From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit dad2232844073295c64e9cc2d734a0ade043e0f6 upstream. Commit e41f501d3912 ("vmlinux.lds: account for destructor sections") added '.text.exit' to EXIT_TEXT which is discarded at link time by default. This breaks compilation of UML: `.text.exit' referenced in section `.fini_array' of /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.a(sdlerror.o): defined in discarded section `.text.exit' of /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.a(sdlerror.o) Apparently UML doesn't want to discard exit text, so let's place all EXIT_TEXT sections in .exit.text. Fixes: e41f501d3912 ("vmlinux.lds: account for destructor sections") Reported-by: Stefan Traby <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/include/asm/common.lds.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/um/include/asm/common.lds.S +++ b/arch/um/include/asm/common.lds.S @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ .altinstr_replacement : { *(.altinstr_replacement) } /* .exit.text is discard at runtime, not link time, to deal with references from .altinstructions and .eh_frame */ - .exit.text : { *(.exit.text) } + .exit.text : { EXIT_TEXT } .exit.data : { *(.exit.data) } .preinit_array : { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/um-don-t-discard-.text.exit-section.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