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authorNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>2016-03-14 02:55:45 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2016-04-07 21:57:02 +0100
commit208fae5c3b9431013ad7bcea07cbcee114e7d163 (patch)
treeda2ce503a9f38d131a3157aa7ef3fdf5ab81b4a1 /arch
parentf2335a2a0a590c88e6cb68e4fb8cd835e81e827e (diff)
ARM: 8550/1: protect idiv patching against undefined gcc behavior
It was reported that a kernel with CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_IDIV=y stopped booting when compiled with the upcoming gcc 6. Turns out that turning a function address into a writable array is undefined and gcc 6 decided it was OK to omit the store to the first word of the function while still preserving the store to the second word. Even though gcc 6 is now fixed to behave more coherently, it is a mystery that gcc 4 and gcc 5 actually produce wanted code in the kernel. And in fact the reduced test case to illustrate the issue does indeed break with gcc < 6 as well. In any case, let's guard the kernel against undefined compiler behavior by hiding the nature of the array location as suggested by gcc developers. Reference: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70128 Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Reported-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <mjuszkiewicz@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.5 Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/setup.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 139791ed473d..a28fce0bdbbe 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -430,11 +430,13 @@ static void __init patch_aeabi_idiv(void)
pr_info("CPU: div instructions available: patching division code\n");
fn_addr = ((uintptr_t)&__aeabi_uidiv) & ~1;
+ asm ("" : "+g" (fn_addr));
((u32 *)fn_addr)[0] = udiv_instruction();
((u32 *)fn_addr)[1] = bx_lr_instruction();
flush_icache_range(fn_addr, fn_addr + 8);
fn_addr = ((uintptr_t)&__aeabi_idiv) & ~1;
+ asm ("" : "+g" (fn_addr));
((u32 *)fn_addr)[0] = sdiv_instruction();
((u32 *)fn_addr)[1] = bx_lr_instruction();
flush_icache_range(fn_addr, fn_addr + 8);