linux-kernel - Re: Request for inclusion of f73b3cc39c84 ("objtool: Clobber user CFLAGS variable") in -stable

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Message-ID: <20190925171141.GC1499213@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Sep 2019 19:11:41 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: Request for inclusion of f73b3cc39c84 ("objtool: Clobber user
 CFLAGS variable") in -stable

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 09:40:47AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi Greg and Sasha,
> 
> We received a report of an objtool build failure with clang related to
> -Wunused-parameter [1], which turned out to be related to the distro's
> CFLAGS. Josh patched this up in commit f73b3cc39c84 ("objtool: Clobber
> user CFLAGS variable"), could it be added to -stable whenever
> applicable? Looks like it will pick cleanly to 4.19 but it can be
> applied to 4.14 with context differences.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h