On 12/29/2017 05:40 PM, Greg KH wrote: > And how do you apply the patches? Or are you using the linux-stable-rc > kernel tree? > > thanks, I cloned Linus repository over a year ago, added the stable (yours) as a remote repo and do since that time: as common user: cd ~/devel/linux/ ; git diff v4.14.9..v4.14.10 | (cd /usr/src/linux && sudo patch -p1) and as root: cd /usr/src/linux-4.x && time make -j4 && make modules_install && make install && rm -f /boot/*.old && grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and this yields into: LD /usr/src/linux-4.x/tools/objtool/objtool-in.o make[2]: execvp: ./sync-check.sh: Permission denied make[2]: *** [Makefile:49: /usr/src/linux-4.x/tools/objtool/objtool] Error 127 make[1]: *** [Makefile:62: objtool] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:1629: tools/objtool] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... CHK include/generated/asm-offsets.h UPD include/generated/asm-offsets.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh What helped is a : chmod u+x ./tools/objtool/sync-check.sh -- Toralf PGP C4EACDDE 0076E94E