Patch "kasan: do not sanitize kexec purgatory" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "kasan: do not sanitize kexec purgatory" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kasan: do not sanitize kexec purgatory

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kasan-do-not-sanitize-kexec-purgatory.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Oct  5 10:28:31 CEST 2017
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:12:12 -0700
Subject: kasan: do not sanitize kexec purgatory

From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>


[ Upstream commit 13a6798e4a03096b11bf402a063786a7be55d426 ]

Fixes this:

  kexec: Undefined symbol: __asan_load8_noabort
  kexec-bzImage64: Loading purgatory failed

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489672155.4458.7.camel@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ PURGATORY_OBJS = $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(p
 LDFLAGS_purgatory.ro := -e purgatory_start -r --no-undefined -nostdlib -z nodefaultlib
 targets += purgatory.ro
 
+KASAN_SANITIZE	:= n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n
 
 # Default KBUILD_CFLAGS can have -pg option set when FTRACE is enabled. That


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from efault@gmx.de are

queue-4.9/kasan-do-not-sanitize-kexec-purgatory.patch