This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86: Use $(OBJDUMP) instead of plain objdump

to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-use-objdump-instead-of-plain-objdump.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From e2e68ae688b0a3766cd75aedf4ed4e39be402009 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Clayton <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 09:51:10 +0000
Subject: x86: Use $(OBJDUMP) instead of plain objdump

From: Chris Clayton <[email protected]>

commit e2e68ae688b0a3766cd75aedf4ed4e39be402009 upstream.

commit e6023367d779 'x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd'
broke the cross compile of x86. It added a objdump invocation, which
invokes the host native objdump and ignores an active cross tool
chain.

Use $(OBJDUMP) instead which takes the CROSS_COMPILE prefix into
account.

[ tglx: Massage changelog and use $(OBJDUMP) ]

Fixes: e6023367d779 'x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd'
Signed-off-by: Chris Clayton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Junjie Mao <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ)    := xz
 suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO)    := lzo
 suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4)    := lz4
 
-RUN_SIZE = $(shell objdump -h vmlinux | \
+RUN_SIZE = $(shell $(OBJDUMP) -h vmlinux | \
             perl $(srctree)/arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl)
 quiet_cmd_mkpiggy = MKPIGGY $@
       cmd_mkpiggy = $(obj)/mkpiggy $< $(RUN_SIZE) > $@ || ( rm -f $@ ; false )


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.17/x86-use-objdump-instead-of-plain-objdump.patch
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