From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756410AbbAZQ3K (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:29:10 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f42.google.com ([209.85.218.42]:44100 "EHLO mail-oi0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754602AbbAZQ3I (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:29:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:29:07 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: XQmQ7eriBYg5IOK0o-RyMQA4D8Y Message-ID: Subject: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches From: Josh Boyer To: Linus Torvalds , Junio C Hamano Cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , twaugh@redhat.com, Git Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I went to do the Fedora 3.19-rc6 build this morning and it failed in our buildsystem with: + '[' '!' -f /builddir/build/SOURCES/patch-3.19-rc6.xz ']' + case "$patch" in + unxz + patch -p1 -F1 -s symbolic link target '../../../../../include/dt-bindings' is invalid error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.mWE3ZL (%prep) That is coming from the hunk in patch-3.19-rc6.xz that creates the symbolic link from arch/arm64/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings to include/dt-bindings. Oddly enough, patch-3.19-rc5.xz contains the same hunk and it built fine last week. Digging in, it seems that upstream patch has decided that relative symlinks are forbidden now as part of a fix for CVE-2015-1196. You can find the relevant bugs here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185928 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775901#13 Aside from locally modifying patch-3.19-rc6.xz, I'm not sure what else to do. I thought I would send a heads up since anyone that is using patch-2.7.3 is probably going to run into this issue. josh