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 4.4-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-4.4 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
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ 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-4.4/arm64-kconfig-select-compat_binfmt_elf-only-when-binfmt_elf-is-set.patch