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authorUlises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com>2026-09-04 15:07:09 +0000
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commit 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries") tested for libopcodes availability by linking a test snippet with a forward declaration of disassemble_init_for_target(). However, testing symbol linkage with an extern declaration only verifies the presence of the library (.so/.a) and bypasses checking for development headers (binutils-dev). On systems where libopcodes is present without development headers installed, the probe succeeds, enabling BUILD_DISAS. Subsequent compilation of objtool then fails: fatal error: 'bfd.h' file not found 113 | #include <bfd.h> Additionally, the probe invokes $(HOSTCC) without $(HOSTCFLAGS), ignoring any sysroot or include flags specified for the host compiler. Fix this by including <bfd.h> and <dis-asm.h> directly in the test snippet, passing $(HOSTCFLAGS) so host compiler options are respected, and defining PACKAGE="objtool" to satisfy the configuration check in <bfd.h>. Fixes: 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries") Fixes: 436326bc525d ("objtool: fix build failure due to missing libopcodes check") Reported-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Assisted-by: Antigravity:Gemini-Next Signed-off-by: Ulises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904150710.2997558-1-umendez@google.com Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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+=====================================
+The Linux kernel user-space API guide
+=====================================
+
+.. _man-pages: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
+
+While much of the kernel's user-space API is documented elsewhere
+(particularly in the man-pages_ project), some user-space information can
+also be found in the kernel tree itself. This manual is intended to be the
+place where this information is gathered.
+
+
+System calls
+============
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ unshare
+ futex2
+ ebpf/index
+ ioctl/index
+ mseal
+ rseq
+
+Security-related interfaces
+===========================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ no_new_privs
+ seccomp_filter
+ landlock
+ lsm
+ mfd_noexec
+ spec_ctrl
+ tee
+ check_exec
+
+Devices and I/O
+===============
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ accelerators/ocxl
+ dma-buf-heaps
+ dma-buf-alloc-exchange
+ fwctl/index
+ gpio/index
+ iommufd
+ media/index
+ dcdbas
+ vduse
+ isapnp
+
+Everything else
+===============
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ ELF
+ liveupdate
+ netlink/index
+ sysfs-platform_profile
+ vduse
+ futex2
+ perf_ring_buffer
+ ntsync