linux-kernel - Re: Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the v4.4.y stable tree?

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:08:36 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:     "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the
 v4.4.y stable tree?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 03:40:22PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It took me quite some time to get v4.4.24 to successfully boot (this
> was a 32 bits build on Fedora 24). Especially annoying was that it
> failed silently on real hardware. Only after messing around with Qemu
> it became clear what might be going on. 
> 
> It turned out Fedora 24 ships binutils-2.26, and using that version of
> binutils apparently requires commit 6d92bc9d483a ("x86/build: Build
> compressed x86 kernels as PIE"). Does is makes sense to add that commit
> to the v4.4.y stable tree?

Did you apply that patch and it worked properly for you?  If so, yes,
I'll be glad to queue it up.

Also, stable questions/issues should be cc:ed to stable@...r.kernel.org.

thanks,

greg k-h