Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation for non-pie link

[Arvind Sankar]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:58:40AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.19.x
> 
> Thanks Arvind, good write up.  Just curious about this stable tag, how
> come you picked 4.19?  I can see boot failures in our CI for x86+LLD
> back to 4.9.  Can we amend that tag to use `# 4.9`? I'd be happy to
> help submit backports should they fail to apply cleanly.
> https://travis-ci.com/github/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/builds/179237488
> 

4.19 renamed LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS. For 4.4, 4.9 and 4.14 the patch
needs to be modified, KBUILD_LDFLAGS -> LDFLAGS, so I figured we should
submit backports separately. For 4.19 onwards, it should apply without
changes I think.

Thanks.