On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 6:34 AM Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 01:24:25PM +0000, Will Deacon 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 <[email protected]>
> > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> > Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> > Cc: <[email protected]> # 4.4.y, 4.9.y and 4.14.y only
> > Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Florian Weimer <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Naresh Kamboju <[email protected]>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
> > [will: backport to 4.4.y/4.9.y/4.14.y; add __clang__ check]

LGTM

> > Link: 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/CA+G9fYuzE9WMSB7uGjV4gTzK510SHEdJb_UXQCzsQ5MqA=h...@mail.gmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> Thanks, now queued up, let's try this again :)
>
> greg k-h



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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

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