On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:16 AM David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> wrote: > > > > > But some libelf bug that is less than a year old is likely to bite people. > > See https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/10/186 for the libelf fix. > It isn't anything like as rare as those emails suggest. > An 'allmodconfig' build fails on a lot of object files after 4.15-rc9.
Ok, but that patch that fixes it was merged a long time ago already. See commit 97dab2ae7e84 ("objtool: Fix object file corruption") So I'm a bit confused by your issue. The thing you point to from last year was literall fixed and committed to the tree in a couple of days days. > When I fell over the problem I found a few reports on the ubuntu lists > but they all just said the ubuntu version was unsupported. > > There is this patch I did https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/26/266 that got > no comments. > > But really something needs to be done to objtool. I think you need to make a report about the exact problem with objtool and your issue. Not on the ubuntu lists, but to Josh. Linus