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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2020-03-26 17:01:02 +0900
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2020-04-09 00:02:00 +0900
commit0aa78b105f57ffc545298f51c7a1adc38a3ced96 (patch)
tree59e0edf7f70d94e213a20e93f40c93098b9d3543 /Documentation/process
parent3f523e12404c4312ed6366653e34b5a7892a71f6 (diff)
Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23
The currently minimum-supported binutils version 2.21 has the problem of promoting symbols which are defined outside of a section into absolute. According to Arvind: binutils-2.21 and -2.22. An x86-64 defconfig will fail with Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext and after fixing that one, with Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: __end_of_kernel_reserve Those two versions of binutils have a bug when it comes to handling symbols defined outside of a section and binutils 2.23 has the proper fix, see: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html Therefore, up to the fixed version directly, skipping the broken ones. Currently shipping distros already have the fixed binutils version so there should be no breakage resulting from this. For more details about the whole thing, see the thread in Link. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110202349.1881840-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index e47863575917..91c5ff8e161e 100644
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
====================== =============== ========================================
GNU C 4.6 gcc --version
GNU make 3.81 make --version
-binutils 2.21 ld -v
+binutils 2.23 ld -v
flex 2.5.35 flex --version
bison 2.0 bison --version
util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel.
Binutils
--------
-Binutils 2.21 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
+Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
pkg-config
----------