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compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64
authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:48:32 +0000 (22:48 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:25:56 +0000 (13:25 +0100)
commit6eedcd63891e6cd11a9fda55763b69a0ec3b2d43
treeb3b642322ac98b1cdb97ba0cc9b3352a890a53e3
parent5eaa0aa86cc280105d99c391c26aac5f2b549ed9
compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64

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>
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>
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]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CA+G9fYuzE9WMSB7uGjV4gTzK510SHEdJb_UXQCzsQ5MqA=h9SA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h