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author | Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> | 2015-09-03 13:24:40 +0100 |
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committer | Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> | 2015-10-27 22:13:01 -0400 |
commit | 2297978f3fc6e3f20917ff7e32fc1c81c3e72fbd (patch) | |
tree | d7abe42b02fccee2bef2b9722d64e1d4fd30cb96 /arch | |
parent | a1c34031c6db90aa8b905d616369e573d301b86c (diff) |
ARM: 8429/1: disable GCC SRA optimization
[ Upstream commit a077224fd35b2f7fbc93f14cf67074fc792fbac2 ]
While working on the 32-bit ARM port of UEFI, I noticed a strange
corruption in the kernel log. The following snprintf() statement
(in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:efi_md_typeattr_format())
snprintf(pos, size, "|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",
was producing the following output in the log:
| | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]
| | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]
| | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]
|RUN| | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
|RUN| | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
| | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]
|RUN| | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
| | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]
|RUN| | | | | | | |UC]
|RUN| | | | | | | |UC]
As it turns out, this is caused by incorrect code being emitted for
the string() function in lib/vsprintf.c. The following code
if (!(spec.flags & LEFT)) {
while (len < spec.field_width--) {
if (buf < end)
*buf = ' ';
++buf;
}
}
for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
if (buf < end)
*buf = *s;
++buf; ++s;
}
while (len < spec.field_width--) {
if (buf < end)
*buf = ' ';
++buf;
}
when called with len == 0, triggers an issue in the GCC SRA optimization
pass (Scalar Replacement of Aggregates), which handles promotion of signed
struct members incorrectly. This is a known but as yet unresolved issue.
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65932). In this particular
case, it is causing the second while loop to be executed erroneously a
single time, causing the additional space characters to be printed.
So disable the optimization by passing -fno-ipa-sra.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/Makefile | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile index 034a94904d69..b5d79884b2af 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile @@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ AS += -EL LD += -EL endif +# +# The Scalar Replacement of Aggregates (SRA) optimization pass in GCC 4.9 and +# later may result in code being generated that handles signed short and signed +# char struct members incorrectly. So disable it. +# (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65932) +# +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-ipa-sra) + # This selects which instruction set is used. # Note that GCC does not numerically define an architecture version # macro, but instead defines a whole series of macros which makes |