This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/vdso: Fix the x86 vdso2c tool includes to the 4.0-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: x86-vdso-fix-the-x86-vdso2c-tool-includes.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0a4f59d6e09ef16fbb7d213cfa1bf472c7845fda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tommi Kyntola <tommi.kyntola@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:48:16 -0700 Subject: x86/vdso: Fix the x86 vdso2c tool includes From: Tommi Kyntola <tommi.kyntola@xxxxxxxxx> commit 0a4f59d6e09ef16fbb7d213cfa1bf472c7845fda upstream. The build-time tool arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.c includes <linux/elf.h>, but cannot find it, unless the build host happens to provide it. It should be reading the uapi linux/elf.h This build regression came along with the vdso2c changes between v3.15 and v3.16. Signed-off-by: Tommi Kyntola <tommi.kyntola@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525002.3cJ7BySVpA@musta Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/efe1ec29eda830b1d0030882706f3dac99ce1f73.1427482099.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/vdso/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m64 -Wl,-soname $(obj)/vdso64.so.dbg: $(src)/vdso.lds $(vobjs) FORCE $(call if_changed,vdso) -HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include +HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include -I$(srctree)/include/uapi hostprogs-y += vdso2c quiet_cmd_vdso2c = VDSO2C $@ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tommi.kyntola@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.0/x86-vdso-fix-the-x86-vdso2c-tool-includes.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in