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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 06:41:01AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 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:
> >      total: 171 pass: 170 fail: 1
> > Failed builds:
> >      x86_64:allyesconfig
> > Qemu test results:
> >      total: 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 :-(.

That's really really odd :(

Let me try this, I only normally build allmodconfig.

greg k-h