Re: objtool patches needed in v4.14.y (and possibly older kernels)

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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 01:49:07PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> please add the following patches to v4.14.y.
> 
> ce90aaf5cde4 objtool: Fix seg fault with clang-compiled objects
> e7e83dd3ff1d objtool: Fix Clang enum conversion warning
> 0f908ccbeca9 tools/objtool/Makefile: don't assume sync-check.sh is executable
> d89e426499cf objtool: Fix seg fault caused by missing parameter
> 
> They are needed to avoid problems when building v4.14.y with clang.
> It might be useful to apply the same patches to older kernels
> if/when retpoline related changes are applied to those kernels.

>From what I can tell, these only are needed for 4.14, the 4.9 and 4.4
backports of repoline didn't backport the huge objtool changes to ORC.
So hopefully it's all good there, otherwise I'm sure someone from the
Android team will complain I broke building with CLANG :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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