Messages in this thread | | | From | Ard Biesheuvel <> | Date | Wed, 6 Apr 2022 13:43:51 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.15 746/913] ARM: ftrace: avoid redundant loads or clobbering IP |
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 at 13:23, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:01:19PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 11:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman > ><gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> > >> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> > >> > >> [ Upstream commit d11967870815b5ab89843980e35aab616c97c463 ] > >> > >> Tweak the ftrace return paths to avoid redundant loads of SP, as well as > >> unnecessary clobbering of IP. > >> > >> This also fixes the inconsistency of using MOV to perform a function > >> return, which is sub-optimal on recent micro-architectures but more > >> importantly, does not perform an interworking return, unlike compiler > >> generated function returns in Thumb2 builds. > >> > >> Let's fix this by popping PC from the stack like most ordinary code > >> does. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> > >> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> > >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> > > > >Please drop all the 32-bit ARM patches authored by me from the stable > >queues except the ones that have fixes tags. These are highly likely > > I can drop you from future selections as well. >
Yes, please. Just disregard all of my patches, unless they have a fixes or cc:stable, or someone suggests them explicitly.
> >to cause an explosion of regressions, and they should have never been > >selected, as I don't remember anyone proposing these for stable. > > They were proposed by the bot last week > (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220330115005.1671090-22-sashal@kernel.org/). >
Yeah, we should really not be using a bot for that.
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