Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/34] 4.4.174-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 2/7/19 6:20 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 2/7/19 3:41 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.174 release.
> > There are 34 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 Sat Feb 9 11:30:10 UTC 2019.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> Build results:
>  ÂÂÂÂtotal: 171 pass: 170 fail: 1
> Failed builds:
>  ÂÂÂÂx86_64:allyesconfig
> Qemu test results:
>  ÂÂÂÂtotal: 291 pass: 291 fail: 0
>
> The build failure is interesting.
>
> Relocation offset doesn't fit in 32 bits
> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Deleting file 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs'
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't tell me _which_ relocation doesn't fit.
>
> I may have to revert to an older compiler. Wouldn't be the first time.
> Let me try...

Confirmed. This builds fine with gcc-6.5.0 and binutils 2.26.1. Sigh :-(.

Guenter