This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/tools: Fix gcc-7 warning in relocs.c 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: x86-tools-fix-gcc-7-warning-in-relocs.c.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 7ebb916782949621ff6819acf373a06902df7679 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:45:13 +0100 Subject: x86/tools: Fix gcc-7 warning in relocs.c MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 7ebb916782949621ff6819acf373a06902df7679 upstream. gcc-7 warns: In file included from arch/x86/tools/relocs_64.c:17:0: arch/x86/tools/relocs.c: In function ‘process_64’: arch/x86/tools/relocs.c:953:2: warning: argument 1 null where non-null expected [-Wnonnull] qsort(r->offset, r->count, sizeof(r->offset[0]), cmp_relocs); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from arch/x86/tools/relocs.h:6:0, from arch/x86/tools/relocs_64.c:1: /usr/include/stdlib.h:741:13: note: in a call to function ‘qsort’ declared here extern void qsort This happens because relocs16 is not used for ELF_BITS == 64, so there is no point in trying to sort it. Make the sort_relocs(&relocs16) call 32bit only. Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161215124513.GA289@x4 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c +++ b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c @@ -992,11 +992,12 @@ static void emit_relocs(int as_text, int die("Segment relocations found but --realmode not specified\n"); /* Order the relocations for more efficient processing */ - sort_relocs(&relocs16); sort_relocs(&relocs32); #if ELF_BITS == 64 sort_relocs(&relocs32neg); sort_relocs(&relocs64); +#else + sort_relocs(&relocs16); #endif /* Print the relocations */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/x86-tools-fix-gcc-7-warning-in-relocs.c.patch