This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: Kconfig: select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF only when BINFMT_ELF is set
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: arm64-kconfig-select-compat_binfmt_elf-only-when-binfmt_elf-is-set.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 2e449048a25eb75d48dff12882b93f26d130a1c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 11:19:55 +0800 Subject: arm64: Kconfig: select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF only when BINFMT_ELF is set
From: Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
commit 2e449048a25eb75d48dff12882b93f26d130a1c6 upstream.
Fix warning: "(COMPAT) selects COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF which has unmet direct dependencies (COMPAT && BINFMT_ELF)"
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt" config COMPAT bool "Kernel support for 32-bit EL0" depends on ARM64_4K_PAGES || EXPERT - select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF + select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF select HAVE_UID16 select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com are
queue-4.4/arm64-kconfig-select-compat_binfmt_elf-only-when-binfmt_elf-is-set.patch