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Hello,
I'm trying to apply grsecurity-2.1.11-2.6.23.9-200712101800.patch to a 2.6.23.12 kernel.
But after the build, the bzImage is not created and I see these errors:

CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK include/linux/compile.h
LD arch/i386/boot/setup.elf
OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
/bin/sh: line 1: 7879 File size limit exceededobjcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S vmlinux arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
make[2]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin] Error 153
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

Even if I only patch the sources without enabling any grsec/pax options I see the same errors.

can anyone give me a hint?

I hope that this will help in resolving the issue, I saw these warnings:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe722): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:efi_bak_pg_dir_pointer (between 'efi_call_phys_prelog' and 'efi_call_phys_epilog')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe72c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: (between 'efi_call_phys_prelog' and 'efi_call_phys_epilog')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe797): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:efi_bak_pg_dir_pointer (between 'efi_call_phys_epilog' and 'efi_set_rtc_mmss')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe7a1): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: (between 'efi_call_phys_epilog' and 'efi_set_rtc_mmss')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe841): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:phys_efi_get_time (between 'efi_get_time' and 'is_available_memory')

I'm sorry, I remembered that I had the same problem a year ago.

The problem was old version of binutils. I upgraded to 2.18 and now everything is fine.

This forum is a great source of information.

hackman wrote:The problem was old version of binutils. I upgraded to 2.18 and now everything is fine.

just for a reference for others, which binutils version didn't work?

binutils-2.15.92.0.2-24 (RHEL4)
I installed 2.18 from source and removed 2.15

i had the same problem with the same versions, upgrade helped me.
the default rhel4 binutils won't let the kernel to compile.

Hi folks,

I am facing the same problem, can you please list the steps to upgrade binutils from source and remove the rpm install. I want to be extra-cautious before doing it myself on a live server.

FYI,

[root@server ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6)
[root@server ~]#


[root@server ~]# rpm -q binutils
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-24
[root@server ~]#


[root@server~]# up2date -v --nox binutils

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name Version Rel
----------------------------------------------------------

The following packages you requested are already updated:
binutils
[root@server ~]#


Thanks

hackman wrote:I hope that this will help in resolving the issue, I saw these warnings:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe722): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:efi_bak_pg_dir_pointer (between 'efi_call_phys_prelog' and 'efi_call_phys_epilog')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe72c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: (between 'efi_call_phys_prelog' and 'efi_call_phys_epilog')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe797): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:efi_bak_pg_dir_pointer (between 'efi_call_phys_epilog' and 'efi_set_rtc_mmss')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe7a1): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: (between 'efi_call_phys_epilog' and 'efi_set_rtc_mmss')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe841): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:phys_efi_get_time (between 'efi_get_time' and 'is_available_memory')

i forgot about this, fixed in test33. are you actually booting with EFI? if yes, does it work even in PAE mode?