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Date:   Wed, 1 Apr 2020 13:28:22 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
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        Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: Kconfig: ptrauth: Add binutils version
 check to fix mismatch
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 05:11:39PM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> Recent addition of ARM64_PTR_AUTH exposed a mismatch issue with binutils.
> 9.1+ versions of gcc inserts a section note .note.gnu.property but this
> can be used properly by binutils version greater than 2.33.1. If older
> binutils are used then the following warnings are generated,
> 
> aarch64-linux-ld: warning: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000
> aarch64-linux-objdump: warning: arch/arm64/lib/csum.o: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000
> aarch64-linux-nm: warning: .tmp_vmlinux1: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0000000

I queued both patches for 5.7. Thanks.

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Catalin