Re: linux-next: build failure in the last build

From: Mark Brown

Date: Thu Sep 24 2026 - 16:41:13 EST


On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 04:28:07PM -0400, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 07:52:39PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > ld: can not size stub section: file truncated
> > `$d' referenced in section `__patchable_function_entries' of kernel/kheaders.o: defined in discarded section `.discard.addressable' of kernel/kheaders.o
> > `$d' referenced in section `.init_array' of kernel/kheaders.o: defined in discarded section `.discard.addressable' of kernel/kheaders.o
> > `$d' referenced in section `.initcall.modnames' of kernel/kheaders.o: defined in discarded section `.note.gnu.property' of kernel/kheaders.o

> > I have reverted that commit and 1ca4515ee4e01 (module: rename
> > module_blacklist to module_denylist) which collided with it.

> At first glance, this appears to be caused by a corrupted/truncated
> kernel/kheaders.o on the build runner rather than an issue in the patch
> itself, no? Could you try a clean rebuild of arm64 allyesconfig with the
> commits re-applied? It should build cleanly.

This was a completely clean build, I only do one of the allyesconfigs a
day and the builds are done in tmpfs with the machine powered off
between -next runs. My first guess would be that you have overflowed
some size limit in something.

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