The currently minimum-supported binutils version 2.21 has the problem of
promoting symbols which are defined outside of a section into absolute.
According to Arvind:

  binutils-2.21 and -2.22. An x86-64 defconfig will fail with
          Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext
  and after fixing that one, with
          Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: __end_of_kernel_reserve

Those two versions of binutils have a bug when it comes to handling
symbols defined outside of a section and binutils 2.23 has the proper
fix, see: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html

Therefore, up to the fixed version directly, skipping the broken ones.

Currently shipping distros already have the fixed binutils version so
there should be no breakage resulting from this.

For more details about the whole thing, see the thread in Link.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110202349.1881840-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Update projects URLs in the changes.rst file.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a9c3c509-8f30-fcc4-d9e0-b53aeaa89e4f@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Some highlights from this development cycle:

   1) Big refactoring of ipv6 route and neigh handling to support
      nexthop objects configurable as units from userspace. From David
      Ahern.

   2) Convert explored_states in BPF verifier into a hash table,
      significantly decreased state held for programs with bpf2bpf
      calls, from Alexei Starovoitov.

   3) Implement bpf_send_signal() helper, from Yonghong Song.

   4) Various classifier enhancements to mvpp2 driver, from Maxime
      Chevallier.

   5) Add aRFS support to hns3 driver, from Jian Shen.

   6) Fix use after free in inet frags by allocating fqdirs dynamically
      and reworking how rhashtable dismantle occurs, from Eric Dumazet.

   7) Add act_ctinfo packet classifier action, from Kevin
      Darbyshire-Bryant.

   8) Add TFO key backup infrastructure, from Jason Baron.

   9) Remove several old and unused ISDN drivers, from Arnd Bergmann.

  10) Add devlink notifications for flash update status to mlxsw driver,
      from Jiri Pirko.

  11) Lots of kTLS offload infrastructure fixes, from Jakub Kicinski.

  12) Add support for mv88e6250 DSA chips, from Rasmus Villemoes.

  13) Various enhancements to ipv6 flow label handling, from Eric
      Dumazet and Willem de Bruijn.

  14) Support TLS offload in nfp driver, from Jakub Kicinski, Dirk van
      der Merwe, and others.

  15) Various improvements to axienet driver including converting it to
      phylink, from Robert Hancock.

  16) Add PTP support to sja1105 DSA driver, from Vladimir Oltean.

  17) Add mqprio qdisc offload support to dpaa2-eth, from Ioana
      Radulescu.

  18) Add devlink health reporting to mlx5, from Moshe Shemesh.

  19) Convert stmmac over to phylink, from Jose Abreu.

  20) Add PTP PHC (Physical Hardware Clock) support to mlxsw, from
      Shalom Toledo.

  21) Add nftables SYNPROXY support, from Fernando Fernandez Mancera.

  22) Convert tcp_fastopen over to use SipHash, from Ard Biesheuvel.

  23) Track spill/fill of constants in BPF verifier, from Alexei
      Starovoitov.

  24) Support bounded loops in BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

  25) Various page_pool API fixes and improvements, from Jesper Dangaard
      Brouer.

  26) Just like ipv4, support ref-countless ipv6 route handling. From
      Wei Wang.

  27) Support VLAN offloading in aquantia driver, from Igor Russkikh.

  28) Add AF_XDP zero-copy support to mlx5, from Maxim Mikityanskiy.

  29) Add flower GRE encap/decap support to nfp driver, from Pieter
      Jansen van Vuuren.

  30) Protect against stack overflow when using act_mirred, from John
      Hurley.

  31) Allow devmap map lookups from eBPF, from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.

  32) Use page_pool API in netsec driver, Ilias Apalodimas.

  33) Add Google gve network driver, from Catherine Sullivan.

  34) More indirect call avoidance, from Paolo Abeni.

  35) Add kTLS TX HW offload support to mlx5, from Tariq Toukan.

  36) Add XDP_REDIRECT support to bnxt_en, from Andy Gospodarek.

  37) Add MPLS manipulation actions to TC, from John Hurley.

  38) Add sending a packet to connection tracking from TC actions, and
      then allow flower classifier matching on conntrack state. From
      Paul Blakey.

  39) Netfilter hw offload support, from Pablo Neira Ayuso"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2080 commits)
  net/mlx5e: Return in default case statement in tx_post_resync_params
  mlx5: Return -EINVAL when WARN_ON_ONCE triggers in mlx5e_tls_resync().
  net: dsa: add support for BRIDGE_MROUTER attribute
  pkt_sched: Include const.h
  net: netsec: remove static declaration for netsec_set_tx_de()
  net: netsec: remove superfluous if statement
  netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support
  net: flow_offload: rename tc_cls_flower_offload to flow_cls_offload
  net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_is_busy() and use it
  net: sched: remove tcf block API
  drivers: net: use flow block API
  net: sched: use flow block API
  net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_{priv, incref, decref}()
  net: flow_offload: add list handling functions
  net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_alloc() and flow_block_cb_free()
  net: flow_offload: rename TCF_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_* to FLOW_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_*
  net: flow_offload: rename TC_BLOCK_{UN}BIND to FLOW_BLOCK_{UN}BIND
  net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_setup_simple()
  net: hisilicon: Add an tx_desc to adapt HI13X1_GMAC
  net: hisilicon: Add an rx_desc to adapt HI13X1_GMAC
  ...

It helps to use some new instructions directly in assembly code.

Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-5-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com

With all isdn4linux hardware drivers gone, this is only a wrapper around
CAPI to support old user space. However, from looking at the mailing
list, it seems that the last time anyone asked about it was in 2014,
when the upgrade from a linux-2.4 installation failed, and mISDN was
suggested as a replacement.

The largest public ISDN network (Deutsche Telekom) was supposed to be
shut down 2018, which must have drastically reduced the number of legacy
installations.

When we last discussed removing i4l in 2016, Karsten Keil suggested
revisiting this in 2018. I guess this is overdue.

Link: http://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2014-October/006165.html
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8484861/#17900371
Link: https://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2019-April/thread.html
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Some documents are refering to others without links. With this
patch I add those missing links.

This patch affects only documents under process/ and labels where
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression:
 "I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system
  location (as do 99%+ on actual developers probably) and in this
  case, pkg-config is useless.  pkg-config is needed only when
  libraries and headers are installed in non-default locations but
  it is bad to require installation of pkg-config on all the machines
  where make menuconfig would be possibly run."

For {menu,n}config, do not use pkg-config if it is not installed.
For {g,x}config, keep checking pkg-config since we really rely on it
for finding the installation paths of the required packages.

Fixes: 4ab3b80159d4 ("kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Various architectures fail to build properly with older versions of the
gcc compiler.

An example from Guenter Roeck in thread [1]:
>
>   In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:17:0,
>                    from ./include/linux/pid_namespace.h:7,
>                    from ./include/linux/ptrace.h:10,
>                    from arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:32:
>   ./include/linux/mm_types.h:497:16: error: flexible array member in otherwise empty struct
>
> This is just an example with gcc 4.5.1 for or32. I have seen the problem
> with gcc 4.4 (for unicore32) as well.

So update the minimum required version of gcc to 4.6.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180814170904.GA12768@roeck-us.net/

Miscellanea:

 - Update Documentation/process/changes.rst

 - Remove and consolidate version test blocks in compiler-gcc.h for
   versions lower than 4.6

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - show clearer error messages where pkg-config is needed, but not
   installed

 - rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics

 - create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead of
   Makefile

 - update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked

 - use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where
   include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory

 - do not try to update the .config when running install targets

 - add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files

 - misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: remove P_ENV property type
  kconfig: remove unused sym_get_env_prop() function
  kconfig: fix the rule of mainmenu_stmt symbol
  init/Kconfig: Use short unix-style option instead of --longname
  Kbuild: Makefile.modbuiltin: include auto.conf and tristate.conf mandatory
  kbuild: remove auto.conf from prerequisite of phony targets
  kbuild: do not update config for 'make kernelrelease'
  kbuild: do not update config when running install targets
  kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target
  kbuild: use 'include' directive to load auto.conf from top Makefile
  kconfig: allow all config targets to write auto.conf if missing
  kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count
  kconfig: create directories needed for syncconfig by itself
  kconfig: remove unneeded directory generation from local*config
  kconfig: split out useful helpers in confdata.c
  kconfig: rename file_write_dep and move it to confdata.c
  kconfig: fix typos in description of "choice" in kconfig-language.txt
  kconfig: handle format string before calling conf_message_callback()
  kconfig: rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE
  kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config

Each of 'make {menu,n,g,x}config' uses (needs) pkg-config to make sure
that other required files are present and to determine build flags
settings, but none of these check that pkg-config itself is present.
Add a check for all 4 of these targets and update
Documentation/process/changes.rst to mention 'pkg-config'.

Fixes kernel bugzilla #77511:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77511

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>