Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:54:35 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23 |
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 05:02:59PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Long overdue patch, see below. > > Plan is to queue it after 5.7-rc1. > > --- > From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:28:36 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutilsa version to 2.23 > > 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>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-Kees
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110202349.1881840-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu > --- > Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst > index e47863575917..7a842655142c 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst > @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils. > ====================== =============== ======================================== > GNU C 4.6 gcc --version > GNU make 3.81 make --version > -binutils 2.21 ld -v > +binutils 2.23 ld -v > flex 2.5.35 flex --version > bison 2.0 bison --version > util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version > -- > 2.21.0 > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
-- Kees Cook
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