[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "x86: Use $(OBJDUMP) instead of plain objdump" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86: Use $(OBJDUMP) instead of plain objdump

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 559c1b7f58d8f014131db2a5b92f369bbeac07a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Clayton <chris2553 at googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 09:51:10 +0000
Subject: x86: Use $(OBJDUMP) instead of plain objdump

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 <chris2553 at googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Cc: Junjie Mao <eternal.n08 at gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54705C8E.1080400@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 14fe7cba21d1..b5bb49866bcc 100644
--- 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 )