This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: Kconfig: select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF only when BINFMT_ELF is set 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: arm64-kconfig-select-compat_binfmt_elf-only-when-binfmt_elf-is-set.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 2e449048a25eb75d48dff12882b93f26d130a1c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 11:19:55 +0800 Subject: arm64: Kconfig: select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF only when BINFMT_ELF is set From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2e449048a25eb75d48dff12882b93f26d130a1c6 upstream. Fix warning: "(COMPAT) selects COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF which has unmet direct dependencies (COMPAT && BINFMT_ELF)" Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" config COMPAT bool "Kernel support for 32-bit EL0" depends on ARM64_4K_PAGES || EXPERT - select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF + select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF select HAVE_UID16 select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/arm64-kconfig-select-compat_binfmt_elf-only-when-binfmt_elf-is-set.patch