On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 08:17:31AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 10/15/24 04:26, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.113 release.
> > There are 791 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:22:41 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> ...
>
> > Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > powerpc/64: Option to build big-endian with ELFv2 ABI
> >
>
> With this patch in the tree, trying to build ppc:allmodconfig
> with gcc version 13.3 and binutils version 2.42 results in:
>
> Error log:
> /tmp/cccUl45i.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/cccUl45i.s: Error: .size expression for gcm_init_p8 does not evaluate to a constant
>
> and many other similar messages. The problem affects various drivers in
> drivers/crypto/vmx/. The problem afects all configurations with CRYPTO_DEV_VMX_ENCRYPT
> enabled.
>
> Reverting the patch doesn't work because this patch is part of a larger series. However,
> I found that applying upstream commit 505ea33089dc ("powerpc/64: Add big-endian ELFv2
> flavour to crypto VMX asm generation") fixes the problem.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
