Patch "arm64: Adjust EFI libstub object include logic" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

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

arm64: Adjust EFI libstub object include logic

to the 4.0-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:
arm64-adjust-efi-libstub-object-include-logic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

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

From: Steve Capper <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:30:39 +0000
Subject: arm64: Adjust EFI libstub object include logic

From: Steve Capper <[email protected]>

commit ad08fd494bf00c03ae372e0bbd9cefa37bf608d6 upstream.

Commit f4f75ad5 ("efi: efistub: Convert into static library") introduced a static library for EFI stub, libstub.

The EFI libstub directory is referenced by the kernel build system via a obj subdirectory rule in:
drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile

Unfortunately, arm64 also references the EFI libstub via:
libs-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) += drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/

If we're unlucky, the kernel build system can enter libstub via two simultaneous threads resulting in build failures such as:

fixdep: error opening depfile: drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/.efi-stub-helper.o.d: No such file or directory scripts/Makefile.build:257: recipe for target 'drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.o' failed make[1]: *** [drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.o] Error 2
Makefile:939: recipe for target 'drivers/firmware/efi/libstub' failed
make: *** [drivers/firmware/efi/libstub] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

This patch adjusts the arm64 Makefile to reference the compiled library explicitly (as is currently done in x86), rather than the directory.

---
 arch/arm64/Makefile |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ core-$(CONFIG_KVM) += arch/arm64/kvm/
 core-$(CONFIG_XEN) += arch/arm64/xen/
 core-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO) += arch/arm64/crypto/
 libs-y		:= arch/arm64/lib/ $(libs-y)
-libs-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) += drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/
+core-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) += $(objtree)/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a
 
 # Default target when executing plain make
 KBUILD_IMAGE	:= Image.gz

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

queue-4.0/arm64-adjust-efi-libstub-object-include-logic.patch