linux-next: build failure in the final build

From: Mark Brown

Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 16:54:42 EST


Hi all,

After merging the tree, today's linux-next build
(arm64 allyesconfig) failed like this:

ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-entry.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/file.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/gop.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/intrinsics.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-fdt.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-fdt_empty_tree.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-fdt_ro.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-fdt_rw.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-fdt_sw.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-fdt_wip.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/printk.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/string.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/systable.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/tpm.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/vsprintf.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/alignedmem.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/kaslr.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-cmdline.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib-ctype.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/pci.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/randomalloc.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/skip_spaces.stub.o'
ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/smbios.stub.o'
make[3]: *** [/tmp/next/build/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:72: vmlinux.unstripped] Error 1

Presumably caused by commit

c19ac4abbd696 (efi/libstub: Remove obsolete .note.gnu.property workaround)

though I did not verify. I have ignored this for today.

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