Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Desaulniers <> | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:45:30 -0800 | Subject | Re: [STABLE BACKPORT v2 4.4.y, 4.9.y and 4.14.y] compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64 |
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 6:34 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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 <linux@armlinux.org.uk> > > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> > > Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> > > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> > > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> > > Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.4.y, 4.9.y and 4.14.y only > > Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> > > Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> > > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > > Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> > > Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> > > Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105154726.GD1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112224832.10980-1-will@kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > > [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=h9SA@mail.gmail.com > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> > > --- > > include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 6 ++++++ > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > Thanks, now queued up, let's try this again :) > > greg k-h
-- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
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