This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ARM: 7720/1: ARM v6/v7 cmpxchg64 shouldn't clear upper 32 bits of the 
old/new value

to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     
arm-7720-1-arm-v6-v7-cmpxchg64-shouldn-t-clear-upper-32-bits-of-the-old-new-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 6eabb3301b1facee669d9938f7c5a0295c21d71d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jaccon Bastiaansen <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 17:28:27 +0100
Subject: ARM: 7720/1: ARM v6/v7 cmpxchg64 shouldn't clear upper 32 bits of the 
old/new value

From: Jaccon Bastiaansen <[email protected]>

commit 6eabb3301b1facee669d9938f7c5a0295c21d71d upstream.

The implementation of cmpxchg64() for the ARM v6 and v7 architecture
casts parameter 2 and 3 (the old and new 64bit values) to an unsigned
long before calling the atomic_cmpxchg64() function. This clears
the top 32 bits of the old and new values, resulting in the wrong
values being compare-exchanged. Luckily, this only appears to be used
for 64-bit sched_clock, which we don't (yet) have on ARM.

This bug was introduced by commit 3e0f5a15f500 ("ARM: 7404/1: cmpxchg64:
use atomic64 and local64 routines for cmpxchg64").

Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jaccon Bastiaansen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -233,15 +233,15 @@ static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg_lo
        ((__typeof__(*(ptr)))atomic64_cmpxchg(container_of((ptr),       \
                                                atomic64_t,             \
                                                counter),               \
-                                             (unsigned long)(o),       \
-                                             (unsigned long)(n)))
+                                             (unsigned long long)(o),  \
+                                             (unsigned long long)(n)))
 
 #define cmpxchg64_local(ptr, o, n)                                     \
        ((__typeof__(*(ptr)))local64_cmpxchg(container_of((ptr),        \
                                                local64_t,              \
                                                a),                     \
-                                            (unsigned long)(o),        \
-                                            (unsigned long)(n)))
+                                            (unsigned long long)(o),   \
+                                            (unsigned long long)(n)))
 
 #endif /* __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6 */
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.9/arm-7720-1-arm-v6-v7-cmpxchg64-shouldn-t-clear-upper-32-bits-of-the-old-new-value.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to