On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 02:15:43PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 5:54 AM Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > commit dca5244d2f5b94f1809f0c02a549edf41ccd5493 upstream. > > > > GCC versions >= 4.9 and < 5.1 have been shown to emit memory references > > beyond the stack pointer, resulting in memory corruption if an interrupt > > is taken after the stack pointer has been adjusted but before the > > reference has been executed. This leads to subtle, infrequent data > > corruption such as the EXT4 problems reported by Russell King at the > > link below. > > > > Life is too short for buggy compilers, so raise the minimum GCC version > > required by arm64 to 5.1. > > > > Reported-by: Russell King <li...@armlinux.org.uk> > > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> > > Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com> > > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com> > > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com> > > Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> > > Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # 4.4.y, 4.9.y and 4.14.y only > > Cc: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> > > Cc: Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> > > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> > > Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105154726.gd1...@shell.armlinux.org.uk > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112224832.10980-1-w...@kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> > > [will: backport to 4.4.y/4.9.y/4.14.y] > > Merging this from stable into "Android Common Kernel" trees that were > built with AOSP GCC 4.9, I expect this to break some builds. Arnd, > IIRC did you mention that AOSP GCC had picked up a fix? If so, did > you verify that via disassembly, or gerrit patch file? > > (AOSP GCC 4.9: > https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/aarch64/aarch64-linux-android-4.9/ > master branch, roll back a few commits). > It looks like AOSP GCC `#defines __android__ 1`.
It seems like this is the source for that toolchain? https://android.googlesource.com/toolchain/gcc If so, it looks like that patch was picked up in this commit. https://android.googlesource.com/toolchain/gcc/+/5ae0308a147ec3f6502fd321860524e634a647a6 Cheers, Nathan
