[GIT PULL] Kbuild fixes for 6.18 #2

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Sat Nov 01 2025 - 01:14:57 EST


Hi Linus,

Please pull this second round of fixes for Kbuild for 6.18. The top two
changes have not been in -next but they seemed low risk enough to send
along without soak time. If there are any issues, please let me know.

Cheers,
Nathan

The following changes since commit 211ddde0823f1442e4ad052a2f30f050145ccada:

Linux 6.18-rc2 (2025-10-19 15:19:16 -1000)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git tags/kbuild-fixes-6.18-2

for you to fetch changes up to 43c2931a95e6b295bfe9e3b90dbe0f7596933e91:

kconfig/nconf: Initialize the default locale at startup (2025-11-01 00:23:22 -0400)

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Second round of Kbuild fixes for 6.19

- Formally adopt Kconfig in MAINTAINERS

- Fix install-extmod-build for more O= paths

- Align end of .modinfo to fix Authenticode calculation in EDK2

- Restore dynamic check for '-fsanitize=kernel-memory' in
CONFIG_HAVE_KMSAN_COMPILER to ensure backend target has support for
it

- Initialize locale in menuconfig and nconfig to fix UTF-8 terminals
that may not support VT100 ACS by default like PuTTY

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Dimitri John Ledkov (1):
kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat

Jakub Horký (2):
kconfig/mconf: Initialize the default locale at startup
kconfig/nconf: Initialize the default locale at startup

James Le Cuirot (1):
kbuild: install-extmod-build: Fix when given dir outside the build dir

Nathan Chancellor (2):
MAINTAINERS: Update Kconfig section
KMSAN: Restore dynamic check for '-fsanitize=kernel-memory'

MAINTAINERS | 5 ++++-
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +-
lib/Kconfig.kmsan | 2 +-
scripts/kconfig/mconf.c | 3 +++
scripts/kconfig/nconf.c | 3 +++
scripts/package/install-extmod-build | 2 +-
6 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)