Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:50:59 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutilsa version to 2.23 | From | Nick Desaulniers <> |
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> The currently minimum-supported binutils version 2.21 has the problem of > promoting symbols which are defined outside of a section into absolute. > According to Arvind: > > binutils-2.21 and -2.22. An x86-64 defconfig will fail with > Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext > and after fixing that one, with > Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: __end_of_kernel_reserve > > Those two versions of binutils have a bug when it comes to handling > symbols defined outside of a section and binutils 2.23 has the proper > fix, see: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html > > Therefore, up to the fixed version directly, skipping the broken ones. > > Currently shipping distros already have the fixed binutils version so > there should be no breakage resulting from this. > > For more details about the whole thing, see the thread in Link. > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110202349.1881840-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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